Brief Encounters

Country girl Nadia moves to the city and becomes a maid in Valya's apartment. Valya, who is a member of the local District Committee, does not know that Nadia fell in love with her currently absent husband, a geologist named Maksim, when he had visited Nadia's village during a recent expedition.

Cast

Nina Ruslanova

as Nadya

Kira Muratova

as Valentina Ivanovna

Vladimir Vysotsky

as Maxim

Yelena Bazilskaya

as (as L. Bazilskaya)

Aleksey Glazyrin

as (as A. Glazyrin)

Valeri Isakov

as Styopa (as V. Isakov)

Tatyana Midnaya

as (as T. Midnaya)

Svetlana Nemolyaeva

as Hair-dresser (as Nemolyayeva)

Sandu Kogan

Olga Viklandt

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