She's 39, he's 29 — can a marriage agency algorithm outsmart society's side-eye?
Elena is a successful business woman of 39 years. Her life has everything except a man on whom she could rely. The work gradually becomes the meaning of her life and, in order to at least somehow resist this, she decides to try her luck at a marriage agency, where she really meets her fate. He may be 10 years younger than her, but is this really a barrier to love?
Acting
Elena Skorokhodova carries the whole thing on her exhausted shoulders.
Production
Peak late-2000s Russian TV-movie aesthetic — gloriously dated.
Director
Igor Shternberg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film captures post-Soviet Russia's awkward embrace of Western dating culture — marriage agencies boomed in Moscow around this era.
Director Igor Shternberg was primarily a TV director; this was one of his rare theatrical features, shot on a shoestring in 12 days.
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