Movie Details
Original Language:Russian
Production Companies:Central Partnership
Cast & Crew
A
Alexey Mizgirev
Director
A
Alexey Mizgirev
Writer
N
Natalya Kucherenko
Editor
R
Ruben Dishdishyan
Producer
Tambourine Drum
Audience Score
1 hr 45 minDrama
A mining town in Russia at the end of the nineties A miners strike has paralysed the place corruption and fraud are flourishing in the transitional period from a socialist economy to a market economy In this world of lost souls lives Yekaterina Artemovna Katya This unconspicuous woman has in the words of her future lover a heart of gold The only bright spots in her lonely life in a meagre communal apartment are literature and her work in the town library The only bright ray flashed in the life of the heroine is a visiting sailor But he turns out to be a gigolo and leaves the poor woman The tense string inside the heroine bursts the iron nerves lose and restrained Yekaterina at this point loses all patience with life and ready for the most desperate and cruel revenge
