Nastya (film)

Nastya (Настя) is a 1993 Russian comedy film directed by Georgy Daneliya.

Plot
Anastasia Plotnikova (Nastya)  a kind, modest, inconspicuous girl   lives with a constantly ill mother, a janitor, who dreams of finally seeing her daughter with her beloved boyfriend. But this dream still does not come true. Somehow Nastya helped an unfamiliar grandmother: she was driving around the city on a bicycle in the middle of the night, and the wheel of her vehicle fell into a sewer well. The grateful old woman promised the savior to fulfill her two cherished desires. And Nastya wanted to become beautiful. After that, the girl's life changes dramatically, men are fascinated by her. But this, alas, does not bring happiness. And only when Nastya makes a second wish: to become the same as before, does she find her true love.

Cast

 * Polina Kutepova as Nastya
 * Irina Markova as Nastya after transformation
 * Valery Nikolaev as Aleksandr Pichugin
 * Yevgeny Leonov as Yakov Alekseevich
 * Aleksandr Abdulov as Teterin
 * Galina Petrova as Antonina Plotnikova
 * Nina Ter-Osipyan as Enchantress
 * Natalya Shchukina as Valya
 * Olga Nedovodina-Finney as Katya (as Olga Nedovodina)
 * Aleksandr Potapov as Maksim Petrovich
 * Nina Grebeshkova as Teterin's secretary
 * Norbert Kuchinke as foreign journalist
 * Yuli Gusman as show host
 * Savely Kramarov as burglar thief
 * Leonid Yarmolnik as a passer-by with a hat
 * Roman Madyanov as Morgunin
 * Aleksandr Adabashyan as a representative of the ministry of culture
 * Yuri Rost as TV man
 * Georgy Danelia as cultural worker

Awards and nominations

 * 1994 — Nika Award
 * Nominated for Best Sound Editing (Valentin Bobrovsky)