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Lyubov Yarovaya is a 1953 Soviet drama film directed by Yan Frid as film adaptation of the original stage production at Leningrad Bolshoi Drama Theater premiered in 1951. Both the stage production and its film adaptation were based on a 1926 play of the same name by Konstantin Trenyov, which was later adapted a second time as a 1970 film made at Lenfilm studios and starring a new generation of actors. The 1953 film was the most popular film released in the Soviet Union that year, with attendance of more than 46 million.