Intergirl
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| Directed by | Petr Todorovsky |
| Starring | Elena Yakovleva Vsevolod Shilovsky Zinovy Gerdt Lyubov Polischuk Ingeborga Dapkunayte Larisa Malevannaya Anastasya Nemolyaeva |
| Release date(s) | 1989 |
| Running time | 143 mins |
| Country | USSR |
| Language | Russian |
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Intergirl (1989) (Interdevochka, Russian: Интердевочка) is a screen adaptation of the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin (also author of Svolochi), set in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) in the time of perestroika during the 1980s.
The film was the leader of Soviet distribution in 1989 (41.3 million viewers).
Awards: 3 wins and 1 nomination. Elena Yakovleva has won the Best Actress award at Nika, 1990, and Tokyo International Film Festival, 1989.
[edit] Plot summary
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.
