Sometimes I’m feeling in a special way, my mind is escaping somewhere I’ve been long, long time ago, to something I really like and I’m inspired by. That’s what happened tonight. At once, just like this, I remembered one of my favorite movies, the Russian neo-classic love story “Moscow doesn’t believe in tears” / „Москва слезам не верит” /.
It’s a story about three girls. All of them came to Moscow to educate, work and search for their happiness.Lydmila is the fashion and popular one, Katya is the serious and purposive, the third one /can’t remember the name/ is the housewife type. Lydmila is always searching for famous and interesting gays, men with higher status, representing herself as a rich heir or similar, while Katya is usually just around her, looking for her wellness in job or books. The third girl is having a boyfriend and married him.
One day a relative to Katya, famous professor is leaving her his apartment in an aristocratic part of Moscow while he is on his annual vacation. This seems a good opportunity to Lydmila to find at last the dreamed one rich wealthy and stable man. She decides to organize a gala dinner at the apartment forcing embarrassed and skeptical Katya to represent herself as her sister, both daughters of the famous professor-relative, persuading her that this will be the beginning of their new and royal life in Moscow. At the dinner Lydmila invites special selection of men with stable social status. At that party Katya meets a TV operator /which was considered as a very prospective profession at that time/, named Radion and starts a beautiful love story with him. At the same party Lydmila begins her romance with a very popular hokey player. Both men still have no idea that Lydmila and Katya are just common girls and they are not daughters of the professor.
After several beautiful and full of love weeks, the truth becomes known when Radion comes to the factory where Katya workes to shoot a reportage for the best worker there. Also searching for good status in his life, Radion is confused and angry. He decides that he can’t be with an ordinary girl who also lied to him and leaves her, not caring she’s pregnant. Lydmila’s young hockey player apparently has no problems with the lie his beloved girl told him and they both get married soon. Katya is deeply hurt by Radion’s behavior but proud and decides to go on not asking for help from Radion or his family. Her dream is to graduate university and after the birth of a beautiful blond baby girl, she begins to build her new life alone.
Several years have been passed. Katya is a little older, a mature and independent woman, who has just become one of the first women-directors of a factory. Single woman with confused love life and an affair with a married man, but stable and prospective mother of the grown up Aleksandra. Katya is under lot of pressure and she’s spending the weekends with Lydmila at the village of the third girlfriend. Meanwhile the dream of Lydmila has crashed, because her husband, famous and prospective hokey player in his youth, now is an alcoholic always begging her for money. So, the three women are together and counting on themselves again.
One evening, when Katya is coming back from the village by train, she meets the strange and philosophically disposed Georgiy, a.k.a Goga, who falls in love with her the minute he sees her. She is cold and impolite even when he drives her home by taxi and on the next day when she found him waiting for hours in front of her place, and then cooking spectacular dinner for her. The ice is broken when he takes Katya and her daughter Aleksandra on a picnic. Since that moment Katya falls in love with Goga. No one knows anything about the other’s life, absolutely nothing, but no one’s interested. Because Katya is again a real woman, who needs man’s protection and Goga is again a real man, protecting a woman and they are happy.
After few months spent in sweet loving moments, one day the TV takes a short interview from Katya as one of the first women, director of a factory. The circle of faith turns again and as an operator to shoot the interview is sent Radion, the father of Katya’s daughter, who remained an ordinary operator for all that years not making a step forward. When he sees the girl he left pregnant many years ago, now a prospective woman with own profession and status, Radion decides that he should take advantage of that by telling her that he must see his daughter and to start relationships with her as her father. Of course, Katya refuses, but one evening Radion comes to her apartment while she, Goga and Aleksandra are having a dinner. Then the truth, hidden for 17 years form the daughter and from Goga since they are together becomes know at that evening- Aleksandra meets her father and Goga understands that the woman he loves is actually very authoritative. Angry, because Katya have never mentioned him that she is on such responsible position and that Aleksandra’s father is alive, Goga is leaving the apartment, nevertheless Katya begs him to stay because she loved him and wants to spend her life with him.
After eight long days with no message or call form Goga, Katya is in a deep depression and Aleksandra is calling her mother’s old friends to help her. Lydmila, the third girlfriend and her husband are arriving immediately to help Katya find Goga. When Lydmila sees her dear friend crying so hard for eight days, and trying to give her courage, she tells her the sentence that gave the name of the movie: “Katya, don’t cry! Moscow doesen’t believe in tears!” Seeing that the situation is very difficult, Nikolay the third’s friend husband takes an amazing and brave decision to look for Goga not knowing even where he lives in the multimillion city of Moscow. Oriented only by Goga’s last name and profession, during a long search Nikolay finds him a little drunk in a hostel. After a hard talk with many arguing and filled with large quantity of vodka for striking up a friendship and trust, Nikolay convinced him to come back. Meanwhile at Katya’s place, the tree friends are having one of the most remarkable movie conversations. Lydmila suddenly begins to cry, explaining that she is crying because Katya is so happy. She reminds that once Katya says that on their age they can never fall in love again, because they’re seeing others faults much more clearly and they can’t admit them. “Yes, but he’s faultless”, almost screams Katya trough tears, “He is the best man in the world”. And then the tree women begin to cry like they’ll never stop. Suddenly the doorbell rings, Katya remains in the room while the other two are opening the door. On the door of course is Nikolay with Goga, who immediately entered the room where Katya is. Probably to tell her he is coming back to stay for the rest of his life. We don’t know that because the director of the movie left that part to our imagination :)
Next scene is showing us the kitchen where Katya and Goga are entering. Katya’s friends are leaving wanting to leave them alone. After sending them, Katya and Goga are sitting together at the table, because Goga is hungry. While he’s eating Katya, watching him with eyes, full of love and tenderness suddenly says:” I‘m waiting for you for so long”. “I wasn’t here only eight days”- says Goga in response. “No, no”- says Katya quietly- “I’m waiting you for so long”.
Ending in that beautiful way, saying in that last sentence everything about devoted love, stolen dreams, loneliness, building life by your own in a big city, finding love again and valuing the incredible luck of having someone who you considered as “faultless”, this amazing Russian film remains in the heart of everyone who watches the story of Katya and Goga. So as in mine as you can see :)
