Thursday, January 20, 2011
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Today we watched the movie Moscow does not believe in tears, directed by Vladimir Menshov (1979). This film really showed how people lived in russian, like there love life, jobs, characteristics, their dreams, and just how life was during the Thaw and the era of stagnation. I enjoyed watching this movie, it showed how women worked more in the factory and lower jobs more frequently and the men held the higher end jobs, it also showed how men looked more towards what a women did for a living and who there parents where, to me that was kinda weird how them seemed more interested in what they did for a living and how much money they made a year rather than getting to know them as a person, like when Rudolph found out that Katerina that she worked in a factory rather than what she told him she did he left her even though she was pregnant with his child. this movie really helped show how different russian relationships were in that time period and how much harder it was for single women to find men.
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I too think that this film did an exceptional job demonstrating Russian life at the time. I thoughht it was intresting how most of the workers shown were women though.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the film gives a very good idea of the types of roles and occupations women frequently held in Soviet Russia...and still often hold to this day.
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