Popularity

Production

Russia, Telefilm, 2002, 1040 min. 4 disks.

Genre

Series, Melodrama.

Plot

At the heart of the series are the stories of two women. At the start of the sixties, the two provincial friends, Vera and Lida, are young and have their whole lives ahead of them. The local big shot is courting Vera and Lida’s not doing bad for male attention either, all in all, it looks like their futures are pretty well secured. But everything changes with the arrival of the Moscow specialist Stepan. Having seen him, Vera realises that this is real love from first sight, whereas Lida sees it as a good chance to get a free pass to Moscow, and as is common, their friendship is ruined because of one man. Things get worse, more and more facts come to light- they pull out all the stops and more and more people get sucked into the whirlpool of lies, conflict and scandal. After many years their dreams, hopes and love all fade away. Vera and Lida’s personal lives develop on the stage of a country whose fate is also not a simple one – a fate that is, perhaps, just as dramatic and unexpected as their own.

Cast

Aleksandr Mokhov, Marya Kulikova, Anzhelika Vostrikova, Olga Ponizova, Dmitry Scherbina, Tamara Semina, Ekaterina Semenova, Andrey Chernyshov, Daniil Spivakovsky, Nelli Pshennaya, Aleksandr Efimov, Igor Filippov, Aleksandr Samoylov, Elena Finogeeva, Olga Dovbysh, Anna Legchilova, Aleksey Maklakov, Viktor Zaporozhsky, Olga Spiridonova, Boris Khimichev, Inna Alenikova, Vladimir Litvinov, Yury Smirnov, Yan Tsapnik, Vasily Slyusarenko, Vladimir Dybsky, Irina Pulina, Viktor Suprun, Vyacheslav Kulakov, Tatyana Parkina, Leonid Zverintsev, Aleksey Krychenkov, Lyudmila Artemjeva.

Authors

Directors Vladimir Krasnopolsky and Valery Uskov.

Also Known As

Dve Sudby. Две судьбы.