A hospital nurse becomes an "international girl" — a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency.
Acting
Yakovleva's devastating transformation from innocence to hardened resolve.
Production
Authentic 1980s Leningrad grime meets desperate hotel glamour.
Direction
Todorovskiy's unflinching gaze at Soviet society's underbelly.
Director
Pyotr Todorovskiy
Elena Yakovleva
Tanya Zaitseva
Tomas Laustiola
Edward Larsen
Larisa Malevannaya
Alla Sergeevna
Anastasiya Nemolyaeva
«Lyalka»
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
«Kisulya»
Lyubov Polishchuk
Zina Meleiko
Irina Rozanova
Sima-«Gulliver»
Martins Vilsons
Victor
Torsten Wahlund
Gunvald
Vsevolod Shilovsky
Nikolai Platonovich
Zinoviy Gerdt
Boris Semenovich
Valeriy Khromushkin
Volodya
Ihor Vietrov
Anatoly Andreevich
Gennadi Sidorov
Zhenya
Tatyana Agafonova
Verka
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The term 'intergirl' was actual Soviet slang for prostitutes servicing foreign tourists—a phenomenon so widespread it became normalized economic strategy.
Elena Yakovleva became a Soviet superstar overnight; the film's frank sexuality caused official scandal despite being state-funded.
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