Cruel romance, part 2

ATTENTION: the movie contains smoking scenes, smoking is damaging to your health.

The action takes place on the banks of the Volga in the fictional provincial town of Bryakhimov in 1877-1878. Kharita Ignatievna Ogudalova is a noblewoman of a good and respected family, a widow with three adult daughters, impoverished after the death of her husband, but does everything to arrange the lives of her daughters and marry them off to fairly rich and noble suitors. In the absence of funds, she keeps an open house, hoping that the company of beautiful and musical young ladies will attract single men rich enough to marry dowry girls for love. 

Director: Eldar Ryazanov

Genres: Drama, Historical

Cast: Larisa Guzeeva, Andrey Myagkov, Alisa Freindlikh