''School Waltz'' (russian: Школьный вальс, Shkolniy vals) is a 1978 Soviet

coming-of-age Coming of age is a young person's transition from being a child to being an adult. The specific age at which this transition takes place varies between societies, as does the nature of the change. It can be a simple legal convention or can ...

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

directed by

Pavel Lyubimov Pavel Grigoryevich Lyubimov (7 September 1938 – 23 June 2010) was a Russians, Russian film director and screenwriter. Biography In 1962, he graduated from the directing department of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, State Institute of C ...

Plot

Ten-graders Gosha Korablyov and Zosya Knushevitskaya are in love with each other. Before the

last bell The last bell (russian: Последний звонок, ''Posledniy zvonok'') is a traditional ceremony in the schools of Russia and some other post-Soviet countries. The celebration is carried out just after all the studies are finished, but bef ...

are only a few days. The young man is planning to become a

volcanologist A volcanologist, or volcano scientist, is a geologist who focuses on understanding the formation and eruptive activity of volcanoes. Volcanologists frequently visit volcanoes, sometimes active ones, to observe and monitor volcanic eruptions, col ...

. It seems that after they finish school they will get married. But Dina, who is unrequitedly in love with Gosha, is constantly near him. Her influential parents are ready to ensure a successful life not only for their daughter, but also for the future son-in-law. And when during the final examinations Gosha learns that Zosya is pregnant, he goes to dinner with Dina on the same day. By this time he dances the school waltz with Dina. Zosya's mother takes her daughter to a hospital from which she ends up escaping, as she does not wish to get rid of the child. Zosya leaves her parents and gets a job at a construction site. Soon she finds out that her parents have separated - they have ceased to love each other a long time ago, but the daughter's departure has finally separated them. Zosya becomes acquainted with new friends. Gosha marries Dina, but their family life does not work from the very beginning. Gosha drinks heavily, and the young couple without having lived together for even a year, break up. At the end of winter Zosya gives birth to a son. At the evening of graduates, old friends, including Dina, Zosya and Gosha, meet at the school. Together, the former schoolchildren watch a newsreel which they once merrily made of themselves - "for history". The young cameraman shamelessly shot part of this chronicle using a hidden camera - a loving couple, kisses in an empty classroom, kisses in the locker room. An innocent school romance ... Zosya leaves the room, followed by Gosha. Their conversation takes place on an empty school staircase. They still love each other, but Gosha does not know anything about the child. He dropped out of the institute and does not know what to do. Learning about his son, he asks permission to see him. Zosya leaves, leaving the failed volcanologist without answer. Behind her the school with shining windows becomes increasingly distant.

Cast

*Elena Tsyplakova as Zosya Knushevitskaya *Sergey Nasibov as Gosha Korablev *

Yury Solomin Yury Mefodievich Solomin (russian: Ю́рий Мефо́диевич Соло́мин; born June 18, 1935 in Chita) is a Soviet and Russian actor and director who has been art director of the Maly Theatre in Moscow since 1988. Minister of Culture ...

as Pavel, father of Zosya *Natalia Vilkina as Ella, the mother of Zosya *

Yevgeniya Simonova Yevgeniya Pavlovna Simonova (russian: Евгения Павловна Симонова, born 1 June 1955) is a Soviet and Russian theatre and film actress best known for her parts in films '' Afonya'' (1975), '' An Ordinary Miracle'' (1978), ''T ...

as Dina Solovyova *

Nina Menshikova Nina Yevgenyevna Menshikova (russian: Ни́на Евге́ньевна Ме́ньшикова ; 8 August 1928 – 26 December 2007) was a Soviet actress. She was the wife of Stanislav Rostotsky and the mother of Andrei Rostotsky. Nina Mensh ...

as Dina's mother *Elena Fetisenko as girlfriend of Zosya *Ekaterina Durova as nurse in the hospital *Viktor Proskurin as foreman *Victor Kamayev as Dina's father *Antonina Dmitrieva as school director *

Natalya Khorokhorina Natalya Nikolaevna Khorokhorina (russian: Ната́лья Николаевна Хорохо́рина; Kharakhorina (russian: Харахорина); born in 1954) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress. Biography Natalya Nikolaevna ...

as construction worker

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*{{IMDb title, tt0165942 Russian coming-of-age drama films 1970s coming-of-age drama films 1970s teen drama films 1978 romantic drama films Soviet romantic drama films Russian romantic drama films Gorky Film Studio films 1978 films Soviet teen films Russian pregnancy films