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Brief Encounters

6.019671h 36mMovieRomanceDrama

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.

DirectorKira Muratova
WritersLeonid Zhukhovitsky·Kira Muratova
ProducerA. Serdyukov

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KlassikiKlassiki
Availability shown for United Kingdom · rights vary by country

Cast · Directed by Kira Muratova

NRNina Ruslanova
Nina Ruslanova
Nadya
KMKira Muratova
Kira Muratova
Valentina Ivanovna
VVVladimir Vysotsky
Vladimir Vysotsky
Maxim
YB
Yelena Bazilskaya
(as L. Bazilskaya)
AGAleksey Glazyrin
Aleksey Glazyrin
(as A. Glazyrin)
VIValeri Isakov
Valeri Isakov
Styopa (as V. Isakov)
TM
Tatyana Midnaya
(as T. Midnaya)
SNSvetlana Nemolyaeva
Svetlana Nemolyaeva
Hair-dresser (as Nemolyayeva)
SK
Sandu Kogan
OVOlga Viklandt
Olga Viklandt

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Brief Encounters is streaming on Klassiki in United Kingdom, and available to rent or buy on Amazon Video and YouTube. It's not currently on Netflix.

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