Little Vera

Little Vera

1988 · 128 min · RU · 6.0 (57 votes)
Dir. Vasili Pichul · Starring Natalya Negoda, Andrey Sokolov, Yuriy Nazarov, Lyudmila Zaytseva, Aleksandr Negreba, Aleksandra Tabakova · Music Vladimir Matetsky
DramaRomance

Vera is a troubled teenager fresh out of school feeling trapped in her provincial port town during the turbulent times of perestroika. Her days and nights are filled with drinking, sex, and family dysfunction.

VIBE

A suffocatingly intimate portrait of a young woman navigating suffocating domesticity and societal collapse. It's raw, unflinching, and deeply human, capturing the bleakness and desperate search for connection in a crumbling world.

grittybleakrawunflinchingintimatesteadysocial realismarthousecharacter studydomestic strifecoming-of-agesocietal decaydesperation
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soviet unionalcoholismteenage girlfemale protagonistboyfriend girlfriend relationshipperestroika