Released Date:
1989-08-01
Languages:
Russian, Swedish, German, English
Countries:
Soviet Union, Sweden
Runtime:
151 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (523 Reviews)
Director:
Pyotr TodorovskiyInterdevochka (1989) is a film adaptation of the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin, set in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in the time of "perestroika" during the 1980s. Tatyana is a beautiful Russian nurse who is underpaid at her hospital job, so she turns a prostitute catering to international tourists. She becomes well paid in dollars, and helps her ailing mother to survive. Tatyana's international clients enlighten her about the life in other countries, so she accepts a marriage in order to escape from the grim Soviet reality. But even being married to a decent man abroad, she still suffers from being labeled as an ex-Soviet prostitute, and her new life is full of new troubles.
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Soviet Union
Runtime:
79 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (325 Reviews)
Director:
Nikolai DostalEarly Sunday morning in a small Soviet town. Loitering in idleness, Kolya is hanging around and bothering the townsfolk with goofy talk. As no-one shares his enthusiasm, he decides to visit his friend Fyodor. Kolya finds him weary and indifferent. In an attempt to catch his attention, Kolya breaks the news: he's about to leave for the Russian Far East. Surprisingly, this decision of him gets overwhelming support; Kolya becomes a local hero, and all his neighbors suddenly get involved in seeing him off. Those materialistic ones start buying Kolya's furniture, as Fyodor convinces his friend to write a letter of resignation
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Russia
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (89 Reviews)
Director:
Nikolai DostalGenres:
DramaReleased Date:
2007-08-23
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
118 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.4 (759 Reviews)
Director:
Andrey KonchalovskiyAndrey Konchalovskiy
Dunya Smirnova
Contempory Moscow, Russia. Young Galya (Yuliya Vysotskaya) comes to Moscow from the coal-mining town of Shakhty in the Rostov Oblast near the Black Sea, a journey of over 500 miles. She is pretty and bright, if a bit naive and disorganized. Her dream is to become an elite high-fashion model -- a supermodel -- and to see her image on the glossy cover of the fashion magazine Beauty. When she meets the editor-in-chief of Beauty Magazine, however, he tells Galya that she lacks the necessary natural beauty and sense of style to be a model, and she will never appear on their cover. She then goes to work as a seamstress for a famous fashion designer. During one of their shows, quite by accident, she ends up walking the runway as a model. They fire her on the spot. Then, seemingly by chance, she becomes the assistant of the owner of an elite, highly exclusive, personal matchmaking agency, which -- for a considerable price -- arranges marriages for rich men with the most beautiful models in Moscow. Soon, she, too, will learn how to be an "elitnaya nevesta (elite bride)".
Released Date:
2011-09-08
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
76 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (568 Reviews)
Director:
Dunya SmirnovaDunya Smirnova
Anna Parmas
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