The Girls
Why this pick
Its affectionate portrait of young workers, everyday routines and a tentative romance carries the same warm Soviet Thaw-era realism, with humor softening the emotional stakes.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Its affectionate portrait of young workers, everyday routines and a tentative romance carries the same warm Soviet Thaw-era realism, with humor softening the emotional stakes.
Why this pick
Another restrained postwar rural romance, attentive to work, community pressure and the quiet shifts in feeling between ordinary people.
Why this pick
A steelworks-set romance whose sense of labor, collective life and sincere emotional friction closely echoes the working-world tenderness of Spring on Zarechnaya Street.
Why this pick
A moving, unvarnished rural drama centered on an ordinary woman finding strength after loss; it shares the original’s humane focus and emotionally direct performances.
Why this pick
It preserves the buoyant warmth and observant city-life texture, following chance meetings and youthful connection with an easy, luminous touch.
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01 / THE STORY
The film takes place in the 1950s in a small working village, where the graduate of a pedagogical institute Tatiana Levchenko (Nina Ivanova) arrives. In the city department of education she Job by distribution to an evening school. She is to teach Russian language and literature at the school for the working youth.