The Story of Asya Klyachina

The Story of Asya Klyachina
Directed byAndrei Konchalovsky
StarringIya Savvina
CinematographyGeorgy Rerberg
Release date
  • 1966 (1966)
Running time
99 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

The Story of Asya Klyachina (Russian: История Аси Клячиной, которая любила, да не вышла замуж, Istoriya Asi Klyachinoy, kotoraya lyubila, da ne vyshla zamuzh, also known as Asya's Happiness and Asya Klyachina's Story) is a 1966 Soviet movie. The artistic director was Mikhail Romadin. Shown briefly in 1967 under the title Asya's Happiness (Russian: Асино счастье), it was not released widely until 1987.

Director Andrei Konchalovsky won the Nika Award for best director for this black-and-white movie.

Synopsis

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Asya, a young collective farmer is in love with a driver by whom she is expecting a child. But he does not reciprocate her feelings. She persists, in spite of the advances of another suitor, then decides, lucidly and courageously, to raise her child alone.

Cast

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  • Iya Savvina as Asya Klyachina
  • Gennady Egorychev as Chirkunov
  • Alexander Surin as Stepan
  • Mikhail Kislov
  • Ivan Petrov
  • Lyubov Sokolova as Maria, mother of Mishanka
  • Boris Parfyonov
  • Sergey Parfyonov
  • Nikolay Pogodin
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