There seems to be a law in life, young people will definitely envy students, and middle-aged and elderly people will definitely envy young people. Twenty-somethings seem to be synonymous with energy and joy. However, in the Soviet film "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" released in 1980, it subverted people's stereotypes about age.
Age has never been an obstacle to life, but inner immaturity.
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"Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" won the American Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980, and actress Vera Aliantowa also won the Best Actress Award at the 8th International Film Festival in Brussels for this film, and the following year. Soviet state bonus. The actor Aleksey Batalov is the People's Artist of the former Soviet Union, a recipient of the Order of Lenin, and one of the most famous former Soviet actors of the last century.
However, these two high-profile stars staged a classic movie that now seems to be a cliché, but at the time, it was a sensation.
The film tells the story of three girls of different personalities who work in Moscow and grow up in love.
The protagonist is Cassia, a 17-year-old female worker. She is studying for exams by herself while working. By chance, she can live with a relative who is a professor and help with the housekeeping for a few days. She also went with her roommate Lyudmila, an open-minded girl who encouraged Cassia to hold a party with her at the professor's house and invited some famous men from Moscow to come. To participate, the two of them pretended to be the daughter of the professor and took this opportunity to get a man.
It was this risky move that made Cassia meet Rudyrka, a photographer working for the TV station. The two fell in love at first sight, and the Rudyrka family also thought that Cassia was the daughter of a rich professor. Emotions develop quickly.
Later, Rudirka learned the truth and ruthlessly abandoned Cassia, who was pregnant at the time.
Kasia was heartbroken, but "Moscow does not believe in tears", Kasia cheered up, became the director of the factory by one person, and found her true love.
Cassia was only forty at the time. As the successful person at the party said: "Forty, life has just begun."
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The story takes place in the Soviet Union in 1958, the city of Moscow. Cassia is 17 years old.
In this year, the Soviet Union successfully conducted a tactical nuclear missile launch test, proclaiming the Soviet Union's military strength to the world.
In addition, in the Soviet Union during this period, a large number of classic buildings rose from the ground, including memorial parks and farewell halls. Scientific and technological talents were respected, and the aerospace field developed rapidly. The first artificial satellite of the Soviet Union was sent to the sky at this time.
Cassia is a female worker in a chemical factory. In the face of this thriving social scene, people will invest more in the emotional world.
In the film, the people invited by Kasia and Lyudmila are all outstanding young people who have made outstanding contributions to the country, such as engineers, academicians, athletes, etc. It can be seen that Moscow was full of talents at that time, and all wisdom was concentrated in Moscow in this big city.
Moscow, which is full of temptations and challenges, is like many domestic megacities now. It does not believe in tears, but only in hard work. As a result, one after another Kasia is playing her own role in each city.
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Of course, the reason why this 1980 film has become a classic is not entirely based on the plot, but it is very good in the picture, music, and even the dialogue of the characters.
Picture: From the beginning of the film, it is a bird's-eye view of the city of Moscow. The densely arranged buildings are listed in the city in an orderly manner. The bridges, cars and oil tankers are all running step by step in the city, from day to night, night The city lights are dotted, which is the most realistic portrayal of the heyday of the former Soviet Union.
Later, Lyudmila went to the Science Hall of the Lenin Library. In order to meet rich people there, this section features a close-up of the self-study seats in the Science Hall of the Lenin Library. There are both gray-haired old people and young people, who are focused on Holding a book, a quiet library, accompanied by Russian music, it is really "wonderful".
There are also a lot of other life scenes in the film. Cassia is working in a factory, surrounded by heavy machinery, the rumbling sound, and the dialogue of the actors' volume, all make people feel real. Lyudmila works in a bakery, sorting out the loaves of bread and wearing white clothes, as if she also brought people back to the work scene of the last century.
After the "scumbag" Rudirka learned that Cassia was not the daughter of a professor, she ignored Cassia's pregnancy, just blindly excused herself, and finally left Cassia on the bench in Gogol Street On the scene, just and many years later, Kasya became the director of the factory, and Rudirka asked to get back with her, but Kasya refused him decisively, and he sat alone on a bench in Gogol Street. The lens creates a contrast.
In this heyday of the Soviet Union, the pictures were bright and highly saturated, and the working people used their hands to create a better era for themselves.
Music: As you can imagine, the music of this former Soviet Union work in the 1980s has a strong Russian style, the theme song "Alexandra".
Everything won't happen in an instant. Moscow wasn't built in a day. Moscow doesn't believe in words, but only in love. The green leaves are covered with snow, fascinating. She warms pedestrians like the earth warms a small tree.
This song closely revolves around the theme of the movie, and in the slow tune, there is hope and positivity for life.
When the three girls went to Coria's house together, when the camera stopped on Coria and his father, the background music played "Come and take a cigarette", as if to deliberately create "men's time" for the father and son.
When the heroine Cassia and the scumbag Rudyrka were dating in the room, they used the classic romantic song "Besame mucho" to create a romantic atmosphere, and it was this romance that pushed Cassia to the A brief abyss of despair.
In the end, Cassia still met her real son, Gosha. When Gosha took Cassia and her daughter Alexandra to the barbecue, the background music played "Whispers under the Christmas Tree", With the brisk music, Cassia and Gosha exchanged glances, already full of tenderness and love, while sitting in the taxi, in the background music, Gosha secretly looked at Cassia's profile, Sweet and happy look.
Lines: From a conceptual point of view, the heroine Kasia's friend Lyudmila is a material girl, always delusional to find a rich man in Moscow, so that she can spend the rest of her life in peace. She looked down on the honest Koriya and said to Tosia, who only loved Koriya: "It's not worth it for you to come to Moscow to find such a person. You can find one for yourself in the countryside."
But in the end, it was proved that the material Cassia did not get happiness. Instead, because of her strong desire for material, she could only be alone in the end. Instead, it was Tosia, who became the happiest of the three girls.
After Rudirka learned that Kasia was pregnant, she just blamed the heroine and said, "Where can I find a doctor? Why don't I go to the factory infirmary, they should be responsible for the health of the employees. The TV station is about to start, I'll go first. already."
However, when Rudirka later learned that Cassia had become a wealthy factory manager, he found Cassia again, on Gogol Street, where he had abandoned Cassia, to excuse himself: " I have been unhappy all these years, and God's punishment for me should be enough." This is also one of the standard excuses of contemporary "scumbags".
In the end, the heroine met her true love, Gosha, who guessed that she was not married, and said: "Unmarried women, their eyes are evaluative, only the police, leaders and unmarried women have this kind of eyes, you are ." All of a sudden aroused the heroine's interest in him, and promoted the future development of the plot.
In fact, the entire film is not inferior to modern values in terms of values. Moscow at that time was like Beijing and Shanghai today, and Beijing did not believe in tears. The love of three sisters will be staged in these cities every day. Some people are happy and some cry, big cities. Only believe in struggle and hard work.
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