Memorial Page for Wladimir Walentinowitsch Menschow

Did you know? When Vladimir Menshov's film "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" won the 1981 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the director heard the news on television on 1 April — and assumed it was an April Fools' joke. Soviet authorities never let him travel to Hollywood for the ceremony. He did not hold his statuette in his hands until 1989.