Carnival (Russian: Карнавал, romanized: Karnaval) is a 1981 Soviet musical comedy-drama film directed by Tatyana Lioznova.

In her personal life, Nina also suffers a fiasco – Muscovite student Nikita very quickly breaks up with her for a new girl.

As a result, Nina begins to understand that the big city is not the eternal carnival she imagined it to be, and instead of conquering the world, the main heroine returns to her home – to care of her ill mother.

The film ends on an ambiguous note – Nina Solomatina appears as a famous singer performing at the full hall, it is not clear if all this is real, or just her imagination.

[3] In the same year, for her leading performance, Irina Muravyova was recognized as the best actress according to the results of a survey of readers of the magazine Soviet Screen.