title: Late Dates
text: # Late Dates
  
  Late Dates (Russian: Поздние свидания) is a 1980 Soviet melodrama directed by Vladimir Grigoryev.
  
  ## Plot
  
  The film tells about a village girl who moves to Leningrad, graduates from the institute with the difference, defends her thesis, but was never able to achieve success in her personal life.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Larisa Malevannaya as Vera
  * Yuri Platonov as Nikolai
  * Yekaterina Vasilyeva as Doctor
  * Sergey Nikonenko as Kukushkin
  * Alina Olkhovaya as Anna
  * Aleksandr Chaban as Mikhail
  * Galina Simonova as Lena (as Galina Shchepetnova)
  * Pyotr Shelokhonov as Lena's father
  * Oleg Palmov as Makarov
  * Viktor Gogolev
  