The film consists of five short stories that reflect five stages (1947 — 1950 — 1957 — 1967 — 1982) the action programs of the heroine of the film, from the age of fifteen, rushed to a typical goal for that time — to smile from the front page of a central newspaper. Her fate is not simple: unhappy love, life with the unloved, a labor colony, love again, then love in return, earthquakes, fires, devastation. The heroine is getting closer to the goal and nothing can stop her..
Unfortunately the movie Oriental Novel is not yet available on HBO Max.
Directing | Viktor Titov | Director |
Writing | Pavel Lungin | Writer |
Writing | Aleksandr Chervinsky | Writer |
Camera | Sergey Astakhov | Director of Photography |
Sound | Nikolai Martynov | Music |
Art | Sergei Shemyakin | Production Design |
Art | Elena Zhukova | Production Design |