Different Fortunes

Different Fortunes

1956 · 101 min · ★ 6.4 · Drama, Romance

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...

Directed by Leonid Lukov · Written by Yakov Smolyak

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Tatyana Piletskaya Tanya Ogneva
Yulian Panich Fedya Morozov
Lev Sverdlin Ognev
Olga Zhizneva Ognev's wife
Tatyana Konyukhova Sonya Orlova
Georgiy Yumatov Stepan Ogurtsov
Ada Vojtsik Morozova
Vladimir Dorofeyev Sergeichuk
Sergei Blinnikov Zubov
Valentina Ushakova Vera Zubova
Konstantin Sorokin human resource manager
Vsevolod Sanayev partorg of the Central Committee

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