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Tambourine, Drum (2009)

Tambourine, Drum (2009)

Drama
Release Date: 2009, December 10
Directors: Aleksei Mizgiryov
Countries: Russia
Production: Central Partnership
Cast: Aleksandr Oblasov, Natalya Negoda, Dmitriy Kulichkov, Elena Lyadova, Oleg Vasilkov, Oleg Bilik, Sergey Sosnovsky, Irina Obidina, Aleksandr Alyoshkin, Sergey Neudachin, Mikhail Biryuchkov, Nadezhda Kobzeva

Overview:

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...

Keywords:

friendship suicide inheritance books loneliness province librarian