Samostoyatelnaya zhizn) is a 1992 Russian film directed by Vitali Kanevsky.
It tied with Dream of Light to win the Jury Prize, the third most prestigious award of the event, at the Cannes Film Festival in 1992.
The story picks up where the previous film in the trilogy left off: 1950s in Partizansk, a small mining town in the Soviet Far East.
Three years after the death of Galya - the heroine of the previous film - protagonist Valerka falls in love with her sister.
[1] It was also nominated for the Golden Bear at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.