Carnival

Year: 1981

Runtime: 151 mins

Language: Russian

Director: Tatyana Lioznova

ComedyDramaRomance

A young Russian girl dreams of a career in show business and plans to leave her provincial town for Moscow, hoping to make it big. In the capital she reunites with her long‑absent, now remarried father, and becomes involved with a boyfriend who manipulates and ultimately abandons her.

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