Looking for My Fate

Looking for My Fate

1975 · 101 min · ★ 10.0 · Drama

There were three sisters — Vera, Nadezhda and Lyubov. Vera, having survived unhappy love, goes to the monastery, where she gives birth to a child. The child dies, Vera commits suicide. Lyuba and grandmother attend church and maintain relations with priest Aleksandr. To Nadezhda that condemns their religiosity, it seems that Lyuba is in love with father Aleksandr. She comes home to him and demands that he stop dating Lyuba. However, it turns out that Aleksandr is in love with Nadezhda. Knowing him better, she reciprocates him, facing a difficult choice, Aleksandr breaks with religion.

Directed by Aida Manasarova · Written by Roza Budantseva

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Georgi Zhzhyonov Karyakin
Eduard Martsevich Aleksandr
Galina Polskikh Nadezhda
Elena Safonova Lyuba
Semyon Morozov Grekov
Konstantin Sorokin Fyodor Illarionovich
Antonina Pavlycheva grandmother
Maya Bulgakova Vera
Sergei Yakovlev college director
Yevgeni Shutov Klimentiy
Anatoly Vedyonkin factory worker
Vera Altayskaya Dariya

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