Overview

The movie is based on the real story of Nika Turbina, once world-famous Soviet child poetess, who got completely forgotten in the 1990s. That's when we meet her: at the age of 27 Nika is full of hopes and doubts regarding her gift. Due to the age restriction, she's got just one shot to enter the Drama School, and that's her only chance to separate from her cherishing and oppressive mother. Acquaintance with a new friend Ivan gives Nika hope for a happy future, but there is still something in her memory that triggers her. Tragically cheerful, painfully confused and desperately believing in love and life after childhood, Nika puts everything on the line to overcome ghosts of the past.

Top Cast

Liza Yankovskaya

Nika Turbina

Anna Mikhalkova

Nika's mother

Vitaliya Kornienko

young Nika

Ivan Fominov

Vanya

Ivan Brovin

Roma

Egor Trukhin

Yasha

Evgeny Sangadzhiev

Igor

Ivan Makarevich

Larik

Nataliya Vdovina

Vanya's mother

Ivan Agapov

Vanya's father

Nikolai Denisov

Evgeniy Evtushenko

Vladimir Mayzinger

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