Tambourine, Drum

Tambourine, Drum

2009 · 105 min · ★ 5.4 · Drama

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...

Directed by Aleksei Mizgiryov · Written by Aleksei Mizgiryov

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Natalya Negoda Katya
Elena Lyadova Friend
Dmitriy Kulichkov Sailor
Sergey Neudachin Igor
Oleg Vasilkov Ignat
Oleg Bilik Redheaded Policeman
Aleksandr Oblasov Slava
Sergey Sosnovsky Katya's Father
Mikhail Biryuchkov Local Criminal Authority
Nadezhda Kobzeva Hairdresser
Irina Obidina Ignat's Wife
Aleksandr Alyoshkin Andrey

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