Prorva

Plot

In this free-wheeling drama, dozens of little dramas center around an affair between the wife of an NKVD official and a baggage handler she has met. The woman, a former aristocrat, is relatively safe in Moscow in 1930, even though Joseph Stalin is running the country since she is married to a member of his secret police (the NKVD). Her husband's unit has been ordered to train a feisty black stallion for the Red Army commander to ride on parade. Hopeless love and aberrant sexuality seems to be a secondary theme, as one story concerns a lawyer who has fallen in love with his praying-mantis-type client, a woman who kills her bedmates. Another story concerns a poet who has fallen in love with a ballerina who cannot accord his affection the kind of response he desires, which makes him suicidal. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Cast

• Alexander Feklistov - Anna's husband
• Ute Lemper - Anna
• Natalya Kolyakanova
• Yekaterina Ryzhikova - Gorbachevskaia
• Yelena Antonova

Alexei Kortnev - Vassili; Petr Zaychenko; Yevgeny Sidikhin; Dmitriy Dykhovichny; Sergei Makovetsky

Credit

Ivan Dykhovichny - Director

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