A coal miner's daughter trades black lung for catwalks — Moscow's fashion world eats her alive.
A pretty, young girl from a coal-mining town comes to Moscow with dreams of becoming a supermodel in this satirical look at the fashion industry.
Acting
Vysotskaya's raw desperation masks steel underneath
Direction
Konchalovsky's bitter love letter to Moscow's ugliness
Costume
Fashion as weapon and wound simultaneously
Director
Andrei Konchalovsky
Yuliya Vysotskaya
Gala
Alexandr Domogarov
Klimenko
Aleksey Serebryakov
Stas
Irina Rozanova
Alina
Tatyana Arntgolts
Oksana
Yuliya Snigir
Model
Efim Shifrin
Marc Shifer
Olga Arntgolts
Nastya
Andrey Noskov
Gleb
Aleksandr Ilin
Chmur
Artemiy Troitskiy
Mark the thief
Marina Politseymako
secretary
Mikhail Politseymako
journalist
Dmitriy Podnozov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Konchalovsky filmed during Russia's oil-boom excess, capturing a Moscow that no longer exists — nouveau riche vulgarity preserved in amber.
Vysotskaya (Konchalovsky's wife) based Gala partly on real Siberian models she met; the coal town opening uses actual miners, not actors.
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