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Summary: Funny and touching, one of the best!
Review: A great movie if you are interested in the life of ordinary people in Moscow. It is funny and touching, and shows the similarities between teenagers coming of age in Moscow and those in the US, but also shows life as it is and was in Moscow from the 1950s until the present day. The characters are well developed and are people we can all identify with. It is a video that you want to watch over and over again.
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Summary: THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE
Review: A rather long but worthwhile Russian production about several women who come to Moscow to become successful, maybe marry well (who knows?) and have lives. Their young lives are fun and entertaining, although one of them becomes pregnant, and the father is a playboy who will not acknowledge his paternity. Time passes, and the women come together again. Their lives have changed so much from when they were young, and things that seemed so promising when they were young suddenly seem tragic while things that were not at all fortuitous (like the woman having a baby on her own) turned out to be blessings. It has been a few years since I saw this film, so I don't remember a lot of the details, but I do know that this was a deftly crafted film with a very keen eye for the human experience and human frailty and the human capacity to overcome adversity and thrive. The story is moving, and if you can find this film, it is quite worthwhile to watch.
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: A trully remarcable film, no matter what your age is or where you are living this movie will make you remember your life, and idetify wiht the characters some how. i would recomend this movie to anyone, it is a greatest film about human nature ever made
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Summary: Very typical of Soviet life in the 1970s
Review: A well-made drama, in which (too) many Russians can find pieces of their own lives in the 1970s.
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Summary: Encouraging
Review: A wonderful movie. The underlying philosophy -- don't rely on anything or anyone but yourself. Of course in the case of failure you cannot to blame it on anyone but yourself, but in the case of success only you get the credit for it.
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Summary: Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Review: Although this film does not realistically portray life in Soviet Russia it does portray human feeings and emotions that transcend national and ideological boundaries. The story of the 3 girls and how they survive, change and grow is excellent! The song "Alexandra" is also captivating and memorable. I would reccomend this movie to anyone ay anytime.
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Summary: schmaltzy, with questionable historical value
Review: as far as the movie itself is concerned, it's an extension of hollywood 'avant la lettre.' from a historical perspective this is not everyone's communist/socialist reality but a reality as the ideologists of those regimes would have liked one to belive. for the east/central european emigre this movie may hold some perfume of the times past.
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Summary: I have to smile...
Review: I am so amused over the discussion that is taking place around this movie. I am quite surprised at its popularity, because it is indeed quite unrealistic. You take an alcoholic who is a wizard that can fix everything, and here you immediately sense that official familiar half-disguised disdain for intellectuals - here, we have a member of the working class who is a real man, although he drinks like a swine. But it's all right in Russian society; he is such a good man, a real man even! Beside that, of course, it is a Cinderella story, with a happy end. To call it the best movie ever is beyond comment, just try Nostalgia or The Mirror for a change. But is it an entertaining movie - after all, a movie not at all has to be realistic. I just think it's a bit out of date; it must be hard for people living in Russia now to relate to this good old communist-era times. And for us, Russians living in America or abroad, it could be only a curiosity, unless it's a severe case of nostalgia. In any case, this picture must be fun to watch it, if there isn't anything better around.
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Summary: Realistic as it can be
Review: I don't agree with other reviews. Most of them say that it is not realistic. All Russian people LOVE this movie just because it is very realistic. It portrays the real life on the former Soviet Union. Don't think that everything was only all around politics at that time. There was romanticism and people did have fun when they weren't thinking about politics. So, don't say that it wasn't realistic because the main point of this movie was to show that people at that time COULD achieve what they wanted if they would've just spitted on all that chaos that was going on and concentrate on their goals. The creators of this movie weren't concentrating on showing the hard times because during that time not all people had hard times. The creators just wanted to show a particular person's nature (in this case Caterina's nature). If you would point out some of the unrealistic moments, then I would just shut up. But just to make it clear, the movie was realistic and is very fun to watch. I would recommend it to the lovers of international cinema.
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Summary: Russians Love a Good Soap Just Like Us
Review: I first saw this movie around 1980, when the Cold War was still on. I had been inundated with propaganda from birth, that all Russians talked about was political, that they didn't do "normal" things or live a normal life. All politics you know. Well, here was this movie about the lives and loves of three women. It was very well acted, and basically, just a long soap! I loved it--and not one word about Lenin, Marx, or anti-Americanisms. I recently saw it again, and liked it just as much. For those who say it is unrealistic--well, how do you know? Do you think that all Russians lived the exact same life? Or because American Cold War propaganda stated that all Russians were totally miserable?
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