Having arrived from the village to Leningrad, the heroine achieved everything she could dream of: she graduated from the Institute with honors, defended her thesis, built and furnished a cooperative apartment. Only here in private life she was not lucky: for some reason, do not hold near her man…
Acting
Larisa Malevannaya's restrained desperation in line for sausage.
Production
Genuine Leningrad cooperative apartment—a character itself.
Director
Vladimir Grigoryev
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cooperative apartments were the Soviet middle-class holy grail—waiting lists stretched decades, making her achievement genuinely extraordinary.
Director Grigoryev was blacklisted for years; this was his comeback, explaining the cautious, almost bureaucratic optimism.
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