"Waves" Goes the Wrong Direction in Racial Depiction, Despite Its Intent and Beauty
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Different Fortunes
Young Leningraders, yesterday’s schoolchildren, are entering adulthood. Sonya is in love with Styopa, but he loves Tanya, and Tanya prefers Fedya. Rejected, Styopa leaves for a distant Siberian city and starts working at the factory, studying at the evening institute. Sonya leaves after him and gets a job at the same factory. Tanya and Fedya, having married, go to college, and the young husband has to earn some money as a driver to support his family. The selfish nature of Tanya refuses to put up with the modest position in which the newlyweds are forced to be, and she starts an affair with an elderly composer...
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Young Leningraders, yesterday’s schoolchildren, are entering adulthood. Sonya is in love with Styopa, but he loves Tanya, and Tanya prefers Fedya. Rejected, Styopa leaves for a distant Siberian city and starts working at the factory, studying at the evening institute. Sonya leaves after him and gets a job at the same factory. Tanya and Fedya, having married, go to college, and the young husband has to earn some money as a driver to support his family. The selfish nature of Tanya refuses to put up with the modest position in which the newlyweds are forced to be, and she starts an affair with an elderly composer...
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Genre:Drama, Romance
Written By:Yakov Smolyak, Leonid Lukov
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Runtime:101 minutes
Studio:Gorky Film Studios
Cast
Leonid Lukov
Director
Tatyana Piletskaya
Tanya Ogneva
Yulian Panich
Fedya Morozov
Lev Sverdlin
Ognev
Olga Zhizneva
Ognev's wife
Tatyana Konyukhova
Sonya Orlova
Georgiy Yumatov
Stepan Ogurtsov
Ada Vojtsik
Morozova
Vladimir Dorofeyev
Sergeichuk
Sergei Blinnikov
Zubov
Valentina Ushakova
Vera Zubova
Konstantin Sorokin
human resource manager
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