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Could One Imagine? (Вам и не снилось…), also released as Love & Lies, is a 1981 Soviet romance film directed by Ilya Frez, based on the story by Galina Shcherbakova. It is about Star-Crossed Lovers Roma Lavochkin (Nikita Mikhailovsky) and Katya Shevchenko (Tatiana Aksyuta), who meet in Moscow. They fall in love, but their parents try to keep them apart because of the bad blood between the two families. However, Roma and Katya manage to see each other, and in the end they are together.

Tropes used in Could One Imagine? include:

Calling the Old Man Out
The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: The teacher tries to help Roma and Katya despite having her own relationship problems.
Cuteness Overload
Dawson Casting: Nikita Mikhailovsky was only 16, but Tatiana Aksyuta was 23 and already married.
Earn Your Happy Ending
Elegant Gothic Lolita: Katya.
Glasses Girl: Katya.
Happily Ever After
Market-Based Title: Initially premiered in the USA as Love and Lies.
Meet Cute
New Transfer Student: Katya.
No Guy Wants to Be Chased: Averted Trope.
One Head Taller: See the DVD cover.
Parental Marriage Veto
The Power of Love
Reasonable Authority Figure: The teacher.
Snow Means Love: See the finale here.
Spared By Adaptation : Doubly so. In the book the film is based on, Roma dies, and of course this is ultimately based on Romeo and Juliet...
Sweet Dreams Fuel
Theme and Variations Soundtrack

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 * [[New Transfer Student]]: Katya.
 * [[No Guy Wants to Be Chased]]: [[Averted Trope]].
-* [[One Head Taller]]: See the [http://www.obnovi.com/uploads/posts/2010-03/1269628773_1.jpg DVD cover].
+* [[One Head Taller]]: See the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120520090424/http://www.obnovi.com/uploads/posts/2010-03/1269628773_1.jpg DVD cover].
 * [[Parental Marriage Veto]]
 * [[The Power of Love]]