The Story of Asya Klyachina

The Story of Asya Klyachina (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 (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
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

 * 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