Mariya Magdalina

Mariya Magdalina

1990 · 72 min · Drama

The dissolute way of life of Mariya Egorova, nicknamed "Magdalene", abruptly ends - her friend, driving her into debt and putting her "on the counter", taking her passport, through a pimp she knows, offers her to work as a prostitute. During the conversation, Mariya breaks the pimp's head, ends up in the police station, from where she escapes. Now bandits and the police are looking for her, and she urgently needs to find money to buy a passport and leave the city with her daughter.

Directed by Gennadiy Voronin · Written by Gennadiy Voronin

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Cast

Larisa Guzeeva Mariya 'Magdalina' Egorova
Mariya Kapitskaya Vasyona
Nikolai Makushenko Birkin
Yuri Platonov Major
Yuri Chekulayev Port Security Guard
Marina Golub Svetlana
Aleksandra Nazarova Landlady
Zhanna Tokarskaya Zina
Andrey Koshelev Viktor
Aleksandr Filippenko Priest
Vladimir Shikhov Korkin
Georgi Martirosyan Southerner

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