Open AccessMoscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears: A Matter of Gender and Fate
Author(s) -
Laia Perales Galán
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
perspektywy kultury
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2719-8014
pISSN - 2081-1446
DOI - 10.35765/pk.2021.3403.07
Subject(s) - depiction , morality , narrative , context (archaeology) , politics , power (physics) , gender studies , plot (graphics) , tears , state (computer science) , political science , sociology , law , history , literature , art , statistics , physics , mathematics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , computer science , medicine , surgery , algorithm
This paper offers an in-depth review of the Soviet hit film Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears (1979). Focusing on its female characters, it analyses the gender dynamics that prevailed in the Soviet Union at that time and the narrative impact it had on the plot. The article is divided into three subsections: a brief historical and political context, a depiction of the state of gender equality in the Soviet Union, as well as the power dynamics that existed both in the professional and domestic sphere, and a summary of the different femininities portrayed by the characters, along with the role morality and fate played in the film.