When I first started watching Russian movies a few years ago I wondered to myself, Where do they get all these good child actors? Â Â I have since learned that Russia has plenty of not-so-great child actors, too, but about half way through this movie I found I was back to my original question:Â Where do all these great child actors come from? Â How is something like that taught to people who are so young?
I’m not able to follow this movie very well (no English subtitles) and I’m only about 2/3 of the way through.  But the young woman in the center is putting on quite a good performance.   Her name is Oksana Dackaja.  I haven’t been able to find that she ever appeared in another film after Личное дело Ñудьи Ивановой.
This  makes me wonder, have there been any good child actors in Russia who went on to successful acting careers as adults?   It’s probably a rarity for that to happen in any country.