A Little Doll (Russian: Куколка, romanized: Kukolka) is a 1988 Soviet psychological drama film directed by Isaak Fridberg.

[4] Sixteen-year-old Tanya Serebryakova is a world-champion gymnast with a promising career until a severe spine injury during a warm-up ends her aspirations.

Her physical prowess and foreign possessions earn her a mix of admiration and resentment, yet she struggles to adapt to the different social rules outside gymnastics.

When Tanya organizes a competing birthday party on the same night as Elena’s, she lures her classmates away, except Panov, who remains loyal to the teacher.

In her final moments at the gym, Tanya quietly pleads for release from her suffering, leaving Panov shattered as he watches her being taken away by ambulance, her athletic dreams irrevocably destroyed.