in russia and the ordinary teenager vera ( natalya negoda ) live a leisured life with her drunkard father and her simpleton mother and without work and wait for the call for a technical course of telephone operator . her brother victor ( aleksandr negreba ) live in moscow with the family of his own and occasionally visit his dysfunctional family and vera and be always motive for argue . when vera meet the student of university sergei ( andrei sokolov ) and they fall in love for each other and decide to get married . sergei move to vera house and but live in conflict with her father . this relationship lead the family to a tragedy . i have just see malenkaya vera and and i like a lot this deep family drama . i be not familiarize with the life style in the former urss and but there be some unusual behavior that i find very interesting . the first one and when victor tell vera that she be conceive not because her parent want to have her and but because they want to move to a large apartment . another one and when the family go to the beach in a truck . many difficulty of vera family and their friend and the repression in the park and other situation picture in the movie be common in third world country . this low budget movie be very well direct and and the story be very profound and real . the cast have great performance and the actress natalya negoda be very beautiful . in the cover of the brazilian vhs and release by sagres distributor and there be information that natalya negoda be the centerfold of playboy magazine . i be not sure how precise be the subtitle in portuguese and since many long sentence speak in russian be limit to short translation in few word . my vote be seven . title ( brazil ) represent a pequena vera ( the little vera ) .