Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears () is a 1980 Soviet romantic drama film made by Mosfilm. It was written by Valentin Chernykh and directed by Vladimir Menshov. The leading roles were played by Vera Alentova and Aleksey Batalov. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1981. Plot Part One In 1958, three young women, Katerina, Lyudmila, and Antonina, live in Moscow in a workers' dormitory, having emigrated from rural villages. Antonina (Raisa Ryazanova) is seeing Nikolai, a reserved but kind young man whose parents have a dacha in the country, while Katerina (Vera Alentova) is serious and hardworking, working in a factory while dreaming of earning a degree in chemistry. When she is asked to house-sit for her well-to-do Moscow relatives, Lyudmila (Irina Muravyova), flirty and impetuous, invites herself along and convinces Katerina to throw a dinner party as a ploy to meet successful men. At the party, Lyudmila talks with Sergei, a famous hockey player, while Katerina meets Rudolf (Yuri Vasilyev), a smooth talker who works as a cameraman for a local television station. During Antonina and Nikolai's wedding, Lyudmila and Antonina learn that Katerina is pregnant. Rudolf refuses to marry Katerina, who gives birth to a daughter, Aleksandra. Lyudmilla and Sergei marry. Part Two Twenty years later, in 1978, Katerina has become the executive director of a large factory, living with her now 20-year-old daughter in a nice apartment. She, Lyudmila and Antonina are still close; Lyudmilla has divorced Sergei, who has quit playing hockey and become an alcoholic, while Antonina is happily married to Nikolai and lives in the countryside with their three children. One evening, as Katerina is returning home, she meets Gosha (Aleksey Batalov), who begins a conversation with her after she notices his dirty shoes. Gosha is an intelligent tool-and-die maker in a research institute (where his instrument maintenance skills are an enormously valued help to his scientist coworkers), and Katerina finds him insightful enough to begin dating him. Gosha states his belief that a woman should not make more money than her husband, so Katerina only reveals she works in a factory, but not as its director. As their romance progresses, Rudolf unexpectedly reenters Katerina's life, and tells her he wants to meet his daughter. Katerina curtly tells him that she does not want to see him again, but he shows up uninvited at her apartment and