I Hope for You

I Hope for You is a 1992 Russian-Belarusian drama film directed by Elena Tsyplakova.

Plot

A woman who abandoned her child and attempts suicide ends up in a psychiatric hospital, and after treatment gets a job in an orphanage.

Cast

Irina Rozanova as Ira
Natalya Sokoreva as Vika
Yevgenia Dobrovolskaya as Alla
Tatyana Markhel as Principal
Natalya Fisson as Marina
Vladimir Ilyin as Vika's grandpa
Dmitry Pevtsov as Kolyunya
Margarita Shubina as Svetka
Galina Makarova as Matveyevna
Natalya Fedortsova as Lena Komarova
Oksana Sivuga as Gyuzel
Sergey Batalov as Valya's father

Critical response

Alexander Fedorov noted: "In reality, we've received the usual mix of 'grim reaper'—dreary, oppressive, monotonous. And even good actresses, though they try to liven up the script's formulas, succeed only in the few episodes where a spark of sincerity glimmers". The magazine Iskusstvo Kino in those years wrote: “The film is a rather strange mixture of a newspaper article about the morals of an orphanage and a tabloid story about a lost and found child". It is also included in the booklet by the Republic of Tatarstan titled .