Different Fortunes
(1956)
★ 7.4 IMDb · 182 votes
Year: 1956
Runtime: 107 min
Country: Soviet Union
Director: Леонид Луков
Cast: Татьяна Пилецкая, Юлиан Панич, Лев Свердлин, Ольга Жизнева, Татьяна Конюхова
Plot
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...