Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

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Summary: Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears
Review: 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.

This is the tale of three Russian women who are very close friends and the paths they took in life. It spans over 20 years. The story could happen in almost any large city in the world, but it is an added touch that it takes place in Moscow during the Communist rule. One gets an interesting insight into life there at that time.

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Summary: Can I put 6 stars?
Review: I just want to agree with previous reviewer: "Russian people LOVE this movie just because it is realistic. Don't think that everything was only all around politics." It's a film about life and happiness. Nostalgia...

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Summary: it's great masterpiece
Review: i like soviet(not politics)movie, music, russian movie ,music, they are great!!!!!!!! much better than US film( trashes)! Moscow does not believe in tears is the best movie i have ever seen, it's realistic, soviet(or russian people ,whatever you call) they live tasted life.They know what life means, they know what love means... The movie is in70th ,, and i just 26, that doesnt' matter, the excellent work will get welcome from all kinds of people, whatever your age, color,language. if you don';t like it, or you say it 's not true, that MEANS you are very poor taste people. Katya( Ekaterina) is real great girl.. she told us how to deal with disaster when you confront it...

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Summary: As real , as it gets .
Review: I miss those times . I really do . This film was a huge hit in USSR , when it first came out . I went to the movie theater with my parents to se it . Loved it than , still love it now . Did you know , that this film was first experimental movie made in USSR with long run and big budget ? " Flight Crue " went out right after it , trying to catch up . But it didn't work .
We didn't care much than about politics ... we cared about each other . And the way , how we was living and surviving was very simple - we was helping each other . And this , what this film shows at it best - real life , real friends , real meaning of life in our harts . And this is , what I miss so much from that time of my life . And this is , what I was trying to find here , but never secsided ... This is very hard to find a black cat in a dark room ... especially , if cat is not there ...

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Summary: As real as it gets!
Review: I miss those times. I really do. This film was a huge hit in USSR when it came out in 1979. I went to the movie theater with my parents to se it. Loved it then, still love it now. Did you know that this film was first experimental movie made in USSR with long run and big budget? "Air Crue" went out right after it, trying to catch up. But it was not as successfull as " Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears".
We didn't care much then about politics, we cared about each other. And the way how we was living and surviving was very simple - we was helping each other. And this is what this film shows at it best - real life, real friends, real meaning of life in our hearts. And this is what I miss so much from that time of my life. And this is what I was trying to find here without much success. Just how Vladimir Visotskiy said: This is very hard to find a black cat in the dark room ... especially if cat is not there ...
This is a subtitled version of the film.
Reviewed by "www.russianwriter.net"

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Summary: Realistic as it could have been at that time
Review: I remember when I watched the move beck then in Soviet Union some facts from the characters lives stroked me as unrealistic. I don't think it matters today. The move is wonderful director's work and very touching love story.

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Summary: I love Moscow!
Review: Moscow is like a lottery: you have the chance to become a diplomat, a circus-artist, a film star. During the year 1958 three girls wonder if such a career is within their reach. They live in a rooming-house, work in a factory and toy with the idea of an academic career. But their main subject is - love. Antonina is the good one, Katerina is the sensitive one and Lyudmila is the man-chaser and gold-digger: the man of her choice should own a car and a datscha, and she tries to entrap an academic by hook or by crook.

After a while the good scenes start to drop in: Katerina is chosen to give a tv-interview while operating her machine. The very professional tv-reporter gives her a scrap of paper with prefabricated answers: Of course, she does not deliver. She has an affair with Gurin, the cameraman, and becomes pregnant. When she informs him he reacts like the "hero" in a french nouvell-vague-film: sulky because he is forced to play the baddie, anxious not to miss an appointment...He is such a coward that he even sends his mother to settle this affair for him. Suddenly Mom turns up in Katerina's rooming-house and treats her with disdain: She is not willing to relinquish even one square meter of her new two-room-apartment. Katerina refuses her settlement...

Twenty years later: Antonina is happily married to Nikolai and a mother of three. The other girls are unmarried. Lyudmila works in a department store, is harassed by an alcoholic ex-lover, but is still playing her old game: Wouldn't it be wonderful to be the wife of a general? Katerina lives together with her daughter Alexandra. She owns a large apartment (For Moscow standards), a car, and is now director of the factory. She has an affair with a married man, but she is not happy. But love comes when she meets the sly and charming Gosha, a locksmith, who announces very soon to Alexandra that he has the intention to marry her mother. He is even willing to beat the daylights out of the Moscow maffia who threatens Alexandra's boyfriend. Suddenly Gurin reappears: after two failed marriages he wants to see his daughter. (Katerina can't resist to ask why he did not bring his mom). But he manages to scare Gosha away. Katerina is desperate: how will she ever be able to find the man she loves, if all she knows of him is his profession and his nickname? Nikolai volunteers. Mission: find Katerina's runaway lover, if necessary by secret-agent-means...

Moscow Guys & Moscow Dolls. Moscow dogs & Moscow maffia. Moscow apartments & Moscow factories. Moscow marriage-brokers (The shortage of men is so serious that they refuse femals clients!). Moscow barbecues under Moscow birch-trees. This film is the soviet answer to Woody Allen's MANHATTAN - the director's declaration of love for his city. There have been some disappointed comments when this film won the best-foreign-film-oscar in 1980, but some critics always nag. It's pretty long, but don't forget that russians have big hearts and much to say. Besides, if you watch this film on video, you can interrupt them as often as you want...

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Summary: we can look after ourselves
Review: My second favorite Russian movie. Great, have watched it a number of times. The best way to introduce modern Russian culture to foreigners. I palied it for my Amercian friends during "Russian Party". I know the words by heart and before today, I had to interprete word by word the moview to non-Russian speaking people, now they can enjoy professioanl translation. Thank you

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Summary: we can look after ourselves
Review: The movie is fantastic until the end. It demonstrates an intelligent capable women looking after herself, bringing up her daughter and being an allround super woman. There is of course the fairy tale element... she who is good and honest and works hard succeeds, her friend who would rather win by lottery falls to ill-fortune. However, we see all charcters able to redeem themselves through changing their ways. It is the ending that is rubbish. The heroine can only find complete and true happiness by finding herself a good honest proletarian man. (Who also happens to be patriarchal and chauvanistic) She didn't need a man to achieve a happy ending. The man who she found immediately takes over the power role in her house, but at the same time is portrayed as good and wholesome. Rubbish, rubbish, rubbish... I'm all for the proletarian man, but for such a successful and capable women to allow any man to come into her life and completely take over... I don't think so!!!!!!

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Summary: One of the best movies ever
Review: The movie is great. I've seen it thousand times and I want to see it again and again. It's about love, family, friendship, commitment and all the things that make us who we are. It teaches you how to pursue your dreams (even when it seems impossible)and never give up. I highly recommend it.