Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

Starring:Vera Alentova, Irina Muravyova, Aleksey Batalov, Raisa Ryazanova, Aleksandr Fatyushin, Boris Smorchkov, Natalya Vavilova, Viktor Uralsky, Valentina Ushakova, Yuri Vasilyev, Oleg Tabakov, Yuri Perov, A. Zhukova, A. Zhiltsov, Garry Bardin, Yevgeniya Khanayeva, Larisa Barabanova, T. Shchutova, Vladimir Gusev (II), Viktor Lazarev
Director: Vladimir Menshov
Studio: Kino Video
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

What a great movie!
will carrie wind up with zhivago or stalin? oops, i must be mixing up my stories ...
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Average/below average release by KINO
Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Starring: Vera Alentova , Irina Muravyova , Aleksey Batalov , Raisa Ryazanova , and Aleksandr Fatyushin
Director: Vladimir Menshov
Manufacturer: Kino Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Release Date: 2004-02-24

Customer Reviews:

What a great movie!.......2007-04-22

This is one of the most captivating love stories I've ever seen on film. It starts with a young woman (Katya, played by Vera Alentova) reporting to her Worker's Dormitory friends that she has flunked by two points the exam to get into university. It ends with the most incredible sweetness of life.

It is like a French film done by a Russian company (which is what it is). The Moscow we see that does not believe in tears does believe in love, and it is not a Moscow of politics, although some people do call one another "comrade." This is a woman's point of view film (a "chick flick") that transcends any genre cage. It begins slowly, almost painfully dull in a way that will remind the viewer of all the cliches about Russia, the unstylish dress, the worker's paradise that isn't, the sharp contrast between Moscow and the peasants who live outside the city. Katya works in a factory. She works at a drill press. She is obviously underemployed. Lyudmila (Irina Muravyova) works in a bakery. She is probably gainfully employed for the time and place. They are friends, twentysomethings who are on the make for a man, but not a man from the sticks. They pretend to be university post docs or something close to that and they impress some people as they house-sit a beautiful Moscow apartment.

This is how their adult life begins in a sense. Lyudmila falls in love with an athlete; Katya becomes infatuated with a television cameraman. One thing leads to another and before we know it they are forty. Neither relationship worked out. The athlete becomes an alcoholic, the cameraman, in the sway of his mother, believes that Katya is beneath him (once he finds out that she works in a factory). How wrong he is, of course.

But no more of the plot. I won't spoil it. The plot is important. The characterizations are important. The story is like a Russian novel in that it spans lots of time, but once you are engaged you will find that the two and a half hours fly by and you will, perhaps like me, say at the end "What a great movie!"

My hat is off to director Vladimir Menshov and to Valentin Chernykh who wrote the script and to the cast. I've mentioned Vera Alentova and Irina Muravyova, but Aleksey Batlov who played Gosha was also excellent. I don't want to say anymore. Just watch the film. It is one of the best I've ever seen.

will carrie wind up with zhivago or stalin? oops, i must be mixing up my stories ..........2006-10-06

an insufferable view of life among a claque of ruskie girlfriends from the late 50s to the late 70s. nothing more than "sex & the city" transplanted to moscow in the khruschev and brezhnev eras -- if thats your cup of borscht, more power to you!

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears.......2006-06-17

This movie shows the classic of Russian history. People interested in Russian culture should definately watch this movie. The plot of the story is really interesting.

Average/below average release by KINO.......2005-04-06

The film requires no introduction, however, the KINO "regular" edition (the special edition is out of print) is a bitter disappointment, moreso for the price it goes by. The subtitles are not optional (hardcoded into the mpeg) - so VERY poor DVD authoring workmanship there! Try to get the SE if possible (supposedly with extra features, and optional, multi-language subtitles.)

Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears.......2004-06-13

I have watched this movie 20 times since it came out in 1980. This version is so good because the producers corrected the errors in the original subtitles. They were white letters on white tableclothes and white benches. It made it very difficut to read especially during some very critical scenes. That has been corrected in this DVD version. I highly recommend the subtitled version of this film over the English dubbed. The acting is so well done that the voice intonations are critical to the quality of the film. The dub-overs do not have those intonations that are so unique.

Description

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears is Vladimir Menshov's enchanting drama of three women struggling to establish themselves in Russia's huge and often impersonal capital city. Liudmilla, Katerina and Antonina seem to have little in common, but are bound by deep friendship and the shared dream that in Moscow they will somehow find happiness. Moscow follows their resourceful pursuit of professional and domestic bliss in 1958, then skips forward twenty years to see just how many of their dreams have come true.

Customer Reviews:

What a great movie!.......2007-04-22

will carrie wind up with zhivago or stalin? oops, i must be mixing up my stories ..........2006-10-06

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears.......2006-06-17

This movie shows the classic of Russian history. People interested in Russian culture should definately watch this movie. The plot of the story is really interesting.

Average/below average release by KINO.......2005-04-06

Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears.......2004-06-13

Product Description

AUDIO SOUNDTRACKS: Russian, English, French SUBTITLES: Russian, English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese. An Oscar winner for best foreign film in 1980. This is a melodrama about the life stories of the three girls. Three friends, Antonina, Liudmila and Yekaterina, come to Moscow in search of their dream. Sharing a hostel room, they work and play together. Antonina soon marries a good man and settles down to raise a family. For Liudmila, Moscow is a sort of lottery, in which you have to pick the lucky ticket. She attempts to conquer the big city, but ends up a loser. The life of the third girl, Yekaterina, is a contemporary Cinderella story. She had her share of disappointments, but did not despair. In twenty years she built up a career and became the director of a big enterprise. A single parent of a daughter, she finally meets the right man and, after long and bitter years of loneliness, finds true happiness... Awards: Grand Prize at the IFF in Portugal, 1980; Oscar for Best Foreign Film, 1980; Saint-Michel Prize for best Actress (Vera Alentova) at the Brussels IFF, 1981 Director: Vladimir Menshov Script: Valentin Chernykh Camera: Igor Slabnevich Music by: Sergei Nikitin Cast: Vera Alentova, Alexei Batalov, Irina Muravyova, Alexander Fatyushin, Raissa Ryazanova, Boris Smorchkov, Yuri Vassiliev, Natalya Vavilova, Oleg Tabakov, Yevghenia Khanayeva, Victor Uralsky, Zoya Fyodorova, Liya Akhedjakova, Valentina Ushakova, Innokenty Smoktunovsky Special Freatures: Pictures and filmography of the films authors; Candids from the shooting ground; A documentary about Moscow; An interview with the leading actresses V. Alentova, I. Muravyova, R. Ryazanova; An interview with the director V. Menshov; An interview with the script writer V. Chernykh; An interview with the composer S. Nikitin.

Customer Reviews:

Russian love story.......2006-11-19

This film has 2 parts.

Part 1:
Young russian women from Moscow try to find boyfriends.
The events happen in the 1950's, so you get to see how old machines,
old TV and old radios used to look like. The women are blue-collar workers, but they try to find white-collar boyfriends. It starts well, but then one of the women (Katerina) unexpectedly gets pregnant. The father (Rudolf) of the baby (Alexandra) doesn't want to marry her.
So Katerina cries a lot of tears.

Part 2:
Many years later, both of the women have children, who have grown up.
But the women still don't have good husbands. One of them is alone, and the other is divorced. The one who is alone (Katerina) has a nice job, she became a director. Then she meets a nice man by the name Georgi. He works as a mechanic. They like each other and get together. Unexpectedly, the father of Alexandra comes back and Georgi gets upset and disappears. But then he is found and comes back. So there is a happy end.

The movie is cool, because the women are pretty and there is a nice soundtrack song. It's about love and marriage, unlike so many other russian movies, which are about communism and war. The second part is easier to watch, because it happens in times that are closer to the present moment.

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears.......2004-08-07

This is one of the best Russian movies I have ever bought. It shows if you try hard enough that you can overcome anything. Trust me it is a great movie.

Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears / Moskva Slezam Ne Verit (Kr.Plan) - Russian Soundtrack ONLY

Average customer rating:

True Classic
Hoary but endearing Soviet classic

Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears / Moskva Slezam Ne Verit (Kr.Plan) - Russian Soundtrack ONLY

Manufacturer: Krupny Plan
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Product Description

RUSSIAN Soundtrack ONLY. NO SUBTITLES. Sound formats: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 1.0. No zone restriction; Format: 4:3; An Oscar winner for best foreign film. This is a melodrama about the life stories of the three girls. Three friends, Antonina, Liudmila and Yekaterina, come to Moscow in search of their dream. Sharing a hostel room, they work and play together. Antonina soon marries a good man and settles down to raise a family. For Liudmila, Moscow is a sort of lottery, in which you have to pick the lucky ticket. She attempts to conquer the big city, but ends up a loser. The life of the third girl, Yekaterina, is a contemporary Cinderella story. She had her share of disappointments, but did not despair. In twenty years she built up a career and became the director of a big enterprise. A single parent of a daughter, she finally meets the right man and, after long and bitter years of loneliness, finds true happiness... Awards: Grand Prize at the IFF in Portugal, 1980; Oscar for Best Foreign Film, 1980; Saint-Michel Prize for best Actress (Vera Alentova) at the Brussels IFF, 1981; Director: Vladimir Menshov; Script: Valentin Chernykh; Camera: Igor Slabnevich; Music by: Sergei Nikitin; Cast: Vera Alentova, Alexei Batalov, Irina Muravyova, Alexander Fatyushin, Raissa Ryazanova, Boris Smorchkov, Yuri Vassiliev, Natalya Vavilova, Oleg Tabakov, Yevghenia Khanayeva, Victor Uralsky, Zoya Fyodorova, Liya Akhedjakova, Valentina Ushakova, Innokenty Smoktunovsky

Customer Reviews:

True Classic.......2005-11-15

I am from Former Soviet Union and didn't watch the movie for language training, but for it is - a good movie with the major line that "life doesn't finish when you're forty, it just starts then".
Agree on it being a Soviet Cinderella story with difference that the woman didn't catch the millionaire, but made her own career and met the guy who isn't earning as much as she does (the major problem for him), but still happy with him.
Can watch this movie again and again - when I am in good mood and when I need to lift it up.

Hoary but endearing Soviet classic.......2004-12-03

The not so subtle morality in this movie and the cliched rewards of a well-functioning (fictional!) socialist society must now strike viewers as quaint, but for those of us who watched this movie during the Cold War as part of our language training, it's everything we hated and loved about Russian, Russians, and the Soviet Union. The acting is superb, and the story heartwarming. Watch it as a tiny piece of Soviet history preserved in amber, and you will love it.

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