Sitting in the train compartment, Yegor recalls his childhood and his friendship with Nastenka, the most cheerful and mischievous girl in the village. Yegor left to study, while Nastenka grew into a charming young woman, dropped out of school, and began working at a resort. The vacationers predicted a brilliant career as an artist for her, and Nastya forgot her childhood friend. The guests from the capital who had promised to bring her to Moscow also forgot about her.
Cinematography
Stunning black-and-white train-window framing.
Direction
Yershov's patient, unsentimental gaze at disappointment.
Director
Mikhail Yershov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
A rare Thaw-era film that critiques Soviet urban privilege without celebrating rural virtue — remarkably ambivalent for 1959.
Iya Arepina's Nastenka was so charming that audiences reportedly wrote the studio demanding she get her Moscow career after all.
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