Intergirl

Infobox Film
name = Intergirl

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director = Petr Todorovsky
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starring = Elena Yakovleva
Vsevolod Shilovsky
Zinovy Gerdt
Lyubov Polischuk
Ingeborga Dapkunayte
Larisa Malevannaya
Anastasya Nemolyaeva
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distributor = Mosfilm
released = fy|1989
runtime = 143 min.
country = USSR
language = Russian
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amg_id = 1:169790
imdb_id = 0097584

"Intergirl" ( _ru. Интердевочка,translit|Interdevochka) is a screen adaptation of the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin (also author of Svolochi), set in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) in the time of perestroika during the 1980s.

The film was the leader of Soviet distribution in 1989 (41.3 million viewers).

Awards: 3 wins and 1 nomination. Elena Yakovleva has won the Best Actress award at Nika, 1990, and Tokyo International Film Festival, 1989.

Plot summary

Tatyana is a beautiful Russian nurse who is underpaid at her hospital job, so she turns a prostitute catering to international tourists. She becomes well paid in dollars, and helps her ailing mother to survive. Tatyana's international clients enlighten her about the life in other countries, so she accepts a marriage in order to escape from the grim Soviet reality. But even being married to a decent man abroad, she still suffers from being labeled as an ex-Soviet prostitute, and her new life is full of new troubles.

External links

*imdb title|id=0097584|title=Interdevochka
* [http://russart.com/?moviepictures&mid=702 Screenshots]