What is Your Heart Will Be Broken about?

High school student Polina is saved from bullying at her new school and makes a deal with the main bully Bars: he must pretend to be her boyfriend and protect her, and she must do everything he says. During this game, the couple develops real feelings, but her family and classmates have reasons to separate the lovers.

What is the mood of Your Heart Will Be Broken?

It offers a romantic-tension experience with a lasting feeling.

Is Your Heart Will Be Broken worth watching?

Rated 6.8/10. It is a Romance film featuring Daniel Vegas and Veronika Zhuravleva.

Why should I watch this?

It explores themes of consent-and-agency, social-exclusion.

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Name: Your Heart Will Be Broken
Director: Mikhail Vaynberg
Genre: Romance, Drama
Released: 2026-03-26
Duration: 134 min
Cast: Daniel Vegas, Veronika Zhuravleva, Ivan Trushin, Maksim Saprykin, Alya Mayer

“Your Heart Will Be Broken (2026) is a 2020s Russian coming-of-age romantic drama that stages intimacy as negotiated performance. It foregrounds unequal power and consent through frontal composition, rhythmic cross-cutting, and high-contrast chiaroscuro lighting. The film demonstrates that formal rigor can expose adolescent agency and social fracture by turning private bargains into visible evidence.”

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