Alexander Demyanenko Movies

Teenaged Katia (Anna Bazhenova) has been living in Moscow with her divorced mother Tamara, but when her mother has to go to the hospital for an operation, she briefly moves in with her boyish father Valeri (Aleksandr Galibin), whom she hasn't gotten to know very well before this. At first he is delighted to have a new playmate, and their reunion is delightful. It looks as though she might stay with him for a good while. However, he soon finds the responsibility of having another person in his life too wearing, and asks her to move back in with her mother. Meanwhile, Katia has been exploring her feelings for the opposite sex, but she has chosen the wrong boys and is nearly raped. She flees, but the frustrated boys seek out and savagely beat her father. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

The proposed selfishness of the younger generation in the '80s in Russia is under the microscope in this fast-paced story about Anna, a 19-year-old woman (Olga Machnaia) with a baby in her arms, pleading for help from Vadim (Valeri Priemykhov), a trusting Leningrad cabbie. The wintry slush on the streets and cold nip in the air seem to make her plight all the worse: she just has to get to the airport in time to convince her boyfriend not to leave her and the baby. This is not a simple one-way fare, the woman is also mysteriously running away from the police and other pursuers -- what has she done? As the cabbie helps her avoid capture, he discovers along the way that she does not know how to change a diaper or feed the baby, he does it for her. And so the truth comes out: she has kidnapped the baby in order to convince her boyfriend it is his and that he has to come back to her. Unfortunately, both the truth and the police arrive at about the same time.
~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi