Siberian girl chases love to Moscow, ends up with Hungarian architect instead—Soviet rom-com chaos ensues.
A young girl from the Siberian province arrives in Moscow for her beloved, whom she met during his business trip. He is a test designer for buses and will be on a business trip to Hungary. It was at this point that Katya set her vacation time. But it seems that they didn’t really wait for her... However, a meeting with László changes all her plans...
Acting
Melikhova's wide-eyed Katya makes delusion oddly endearing.
Production
1982 Moscow and Budapest as characters—gray glamour vs. warm chaos.
Writing
Dialogue that makes bus engineering sound almost romantic. Almost.
Director
Viktor Titov
Olga Melikhova
Katya Kotova
Igor Kostolevskiy
Yura
Lyudmila Gurchenko
Ada Petrovna
Yelena Romanova
Lena
Vladimir Basov
Evdokimov
Marianna Strizhenova
Yura's Mother
Ella Nekrasova
Lena's Mother
Aleksandr Shirvindt
Yuri Nikolayevich
Nikolai Lebedev
Vadim Orlov
Igor Yasulovich
Orlov's Referent
Liya Akhedzhakova
Irina
Erzsi Pásztor
László's Grandmother
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rare Soviet-Hungarian co-production; László's foreignness represents forbidden Western possibility within Eastern Bloc constraints.
Igor Kostolevskiy was already Soviet cinema's biggest heartthrob—casting him as the disappointing option was deliberate subversion.
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