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...
Director and cast
- Aleksei Mizgiryov Director
- Natalya Negoda as Katya
- Elena Lyadova as Friend
- Dmitriy Kulichkov as Sailor
- Sergey Neudachin as Igor
- Oleg Vasilkov as Ignat
- Oleg Bilik as Redheaded Policeman
- Aleksandr Oblasov as Slava
- Sergey Sosnovsky as Katya's Father
- Mikhail Biryuchkov as Local Criminal Authority
- Nadezhda Kobzeva as Hairdresser
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