Аннотация:In the 1970s and 1980s, Alla Pugacheva and Sofia Rotaru became the two leading pop singers in the Soviet Union.1 They competed for the status of top singer during the last two decades of the Soviet Union and played a key role in redefining the modes of pop music that dominated Soviet radio and television broadcasts as well as LP recordings. Both performers used the genre of the film musical in promoting their careers. This chapter examines two film musicals, Zhenshchina, kotoraia poet (The woman who sings,directed by Aleksandr Orlov, 1978 [hereafter WWS])and Dusha (Soul, directed by Aleksandr Stefanovich, 1981),specifically the ways they changed Soviet conventions of the genre and, in the case of WWS, challenged patriarchal norms of late-Soviet society.