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Released
1980 · FILM

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

A resilient Moscow worker fights societal judgment and personal loss to raise her daughter alone while climbing the factory ranks, only to confront the emptiness of success when a chance romance threatens to upend her hard‑won independence.

“The Funniest, Tenderest Love Story of the Year.”

Directed by
Vladimir Menshov
Written by
Valentin Chernykh, Vladimir Menshov
Runtime
142 min
Language
RU
ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

Katerina and her friends live together in a workers' dorm as they strive to build a future in Moscow. When a rude cameraman sexually assaults her, Katerina becomes pregnant and is left alone as her friends move on with their lives. Twenty years later, she has risen to become a factory director, surpassing her former roommates in career success, though she remains alone except for her daughter. A potential new relationship emerges when she meets a kind and amiable mechanic.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Yelena MikhaylovaShot by Igor SlabnevichScored by Sergey NikitinDesigned by Said Menyalshchikov

Box Office

1980 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$2.5M

Budget$900K
Worldwide gross$2.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Moskau glaubt den Tränen nichtde
  • Moscow Does Not Believe in Tearsen
  • Moscú no cree en las lágrimases
  • Moscou ne croit pas aux larmesfr
  • Mosca non crede alle lacrimeit
  • Москва слезам не веритru

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