These women are not just beautiful. They are gorgeous. They are divine. Hollywood, looking at their performance, both admired and was perplexed: how could Soviet cinema, thoroughly saturated with communist ideology, with its chronic poverty and meager budget, nurture such talented and original actresses who, with such graceful elegance, overshadowed the advertised American movie stars? Well, who else could compare with the magnificent Lyudmila Gurchenko, the piercing Tatyana Samoilova, the cool Nonna Mordyukova, the elegant Viya Artmane, the sparkling Alisa Freundlich, the sweet Elena Yakovleva and many, many other domestic actresses? They lit up a whole constellation in the sky of cinema, which still shines dazzlingly!