Intergirl (1989)

Original title

Интердевочка

Directed by

Pyotr Todorovsky

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

Soviet Union, Sweden

Runtime

2h 29m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 48 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A nurse in Leningrad works as a high-class prostitute to earn money. She navigates the moral and social pressures of her double life during the perestroika era.

melancholicgrittydramaticsentimentalslow-burnsombersocially awareatmospheric

What happens

Intergirl (Russian: Интердевочка, translit. Interdevochka) is a 1989 Soviet-Sweden drama film. It is set in Leningrad in the time of perestroika during the 1980s. The film was the most popular Soviet film in 1989 (41.3 million viewers) and made a star of leading actress Elena Yakovleva. It is the screen adaptation of the eponymous story by Vladimir Kunin. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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