A Soviet teen romance where a misfit falls for a ballerina — and somehow nobody gets sent to the gulag!
First love is always not simple. Especially when you are outcast and she is ballet dancer in the beginning of her carrier.
Acting
Viktor Perevalov's painfully authentic teen awkwardness.
Direction
Ilya Frez balances comedy and genuine melancholy.
Production
Rare glimpse of 1960s Soviet youth culture and ballet world.
Director
Ilya Frez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Frez was one of few Soviet directors trusted with youth stories, making this a rare uncensored look at teen life behind the Iron Curtain.
Natalya Seleznyova was an actual ballet student when cast; her awkward dancing in rehearsal scenes is genuine inexperience, not acting.
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