History Film / SchoolWaltz

* YourCheatingHeart: The reason Zosya's mom is always on the phone is that she is talking to her lover. Finally Zosya's father says he's had enough, and leaves.

* LawOfInverseFertility: As near as one can tell from the film, Gosha and Zosya only have sex once, but she gets knocked up.

* WeddingEpisode: Gosha has a melancholy expression as he gets married to Dina. Later he bails from the celebration to drink with his buddies on a street corner.

* WeddingDay: Gosha has a melancholy expression as he gets married to Dina. Later he bails from the celebration to drink with his buddies on a street corner.

Zosya /a Polish small name for Sophie/ (Elena Tsyplakova) is a Russian student at whatever is the Russian equivalent of high school. She is very much in love with boyishly handsome Gosha /small name for Georgy, a Russian equivalent of George/, who has ambitions to be a volcanologist. Another student at the school, Dina, is also sweet on Gosha, but is making no headway.

* YourCheatingHeart: The reason Zosya's mom is always on the phone is that she is talking to her lover. Finally Zosya's father says he's had enough, and leaves.

Zolya (Elena Tsyplakova) is a Russian student at whatever is the Russian equivalent of high school. She is very much in love with boyishly handsome Gosha, who has ambitions to be a volcanologist. Another student at the school, Dina, is also sweet on Gosha, but is making no headway.

Gosha for his part makes quite a bit of headway with Zolya, when she sneaks him into her family's apartment for sex, sometime right after graduation. Naturally, a little bit later Zolya realizes that she is pregnant. And while all this is happening, Zolya's life is further complicated when her father leaves her unfaithful mother.

* AwfulWeddedLife: Gosha and Dina's brief marriage is a loveless disaster. For that matter, the marriage of Zolya's parents unravels.
* BeachEpisode: The whole high school gang is having a pleasant afternoon on a beach by a lake when Zolya drops the bomb on Gosha.

* DancesAndBalls: The titular "school waltz" is a graduation dance. Zolya tells Gosha there that they are done.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Abortions in the Soviet Union lacked the social stigma that they have in some quarters of the United States, and Zolya's mother urges her to get one and not be burdened with a child. Zolya bolts from the clinic anyway.

* HopeSpot: Zolya's parents have come to the outside of her maternity hospital. From her window she throws them a message: "You look good together." They walk away down the long path to the street--and then go separate directions.
* LawOfInverseFertility: As near as one can tell from the film, Gosha and Zolya only have sex once, but she gets knocked up.

* LoveTriangle: Zolya, Gosha, and Dina, with an unhappy ending.

* SexyDiscretionShot: The film cuts away as Gosha gets into bed with Zolya.

* YourCheatingHeart: The reason Zolya's mom is always on the phone is that she is talking to her lover. Finally Zolya's father says he's had enough, and leaves.

''School Waltz'' (Shkolnyy vals) is a 1979 film from the UsefulNotes/SovietUnion, directed by Pavel Lyubimov.