Little Vera
(1988)
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Little Vera
(1988)
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Natalya Negoda | ... |
Vera
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Andrey Sokolov | ... |
Sergei
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Yuriy Nazarov | ... |
Vera's Father
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Lyudmila Zaytseva | ... |
Vera's Mother
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Aleksandr Negreba | ... |
Victor, Vera's Brother
(as Aleksandr Alekseyev-Nyegreba)
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Aleksandra Tabakova | ... |
Chistyakova
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Andrey Fomin | ... |
Andrei
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Aleksandr Mironov | ... |
Tolik
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Aleksandr Lenkov | ... |
Mikhail Petrovich
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Vadim Zakharchenko |
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Mariya Khmelik |
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Anatoliy Vasilev |
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Gennadi Goryachev | ... |
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Ye. Maryutina |
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Max Warmflash | ... |
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A story about a young woman, Vera, who is somebody, living the life of a troubled teenager in the time right before the end of the Soviet Union. She lives in a very small Russian apartment with her mother and father, however being this close to each other makes the living get rough. Their daily life is plagued with massive amounts of alcohol (mainly vodka) and when she tries to escape her home life, she meets up with a boyfriend, Sergei who then moves into her already small apartment after sleeping with her. Every day little Vera has to go through hell just to get by, which even involves her going against her own morals after her father has done something extremely wrong. Written by Rosa Thompson
One of the major aspects of "Malenkaya Vera" (called "Little Vera" in English) is that it was the first movie from the Soviet Union that featured a sex scene, albeit a short one. The title is important: Vera is the Russian word for "faith", identifying that punk Vera (Natalya Negoda) has little faith in the Soviet system. And as the movie shows, there's not much faith to be had in it. The opening scene shows the bleak industrial town of Zhdanov, nearly a hell on earth. When Vera's lover Sergei (Andrey Sokolov) moves in with her family, it leads to some unexpected events.
Like in many Russian movies, people's names describe their characters. For example, there's Viktor (remember that "victor" means winner). All in all, this is a good look at the Soviet Union while it was collapsing