Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

This film Vladimir Menshov in 1979 revolves around three young ladies who live in Moscow in the late  1950's or the Thaw period. The first lady's name is Katerina and she is one of the two girls who has good morals, she is also a very hard-worker and this gets noticed at her factory and eventually gets her promoted to Executive Director. I felt really bad for when she became pregnant and her boyfriend just abandoned her and she was all on her own, but i was glad that she was doing very well for her and her daughter twenty years later. The next lady was named Lyudmila and she was the trouble maker of the group. She was basically just a gold-digger who thought she could just marry a rich guy and be set for life without having to do anything herself. She was a very shortminded person who didn't think about how her actions would effect her future and this comes back to hurt her later in the film. I could tell early in the film the type of girl she was going to be when she had on that strawberry mask and said it helped heal her skin. The third lady Antonina seemed to be the most modist of the three and she meets her future husband in the beginning of the film and gets married shortly after. Antonina and husband live happily married and have several children together. One thing i noticed about this film was the kind of blue collar attitude that all of these characters portrayed and i think that this was a great symbol of the Russian people. I think the title of this film also symbolized how Russian people on the outside all appeared to be really tough but when you get to know them it showed how they had several issues with the way their lives were going.