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Tambourine, Drum

5.3 105 mins Drama   2009
Central Partnership  
Director(s): Aleksei Mizgiryov

A mining town in Russia at the end of the nineties. A miners' strike has paralysed the place, corruption and fraud are flourishing in the transitional period from a socialist economy to a market economy. In this world of lost souls lives Yekaterina Artemovna (Katya). This unconspicuous woman has, in the words of her future lover, a "heart of gold". The only bright spots in her lonely life in a meagre communal apartment are literature and her work in the town library. The only bright ray flashed in the life of the heroine is a visiting sailor. But he turns out to be a gigolo and leaves the poor woman. The tense string inside the heroine bursts, the iron nerves lose, and restrained Yekaterina at this point loses all patience with life and ready for the most desperate and cruel revenge...

Casts of Tambourine, Drum

Natalya Negoda

as Katya

Elena Lyadova

as Friend

Dmitriy Kulichkov

as Sailor

Oleg Vasilkov

as Ignat

Oleg Bilik

as Redheaded Policeman

Sergey Sosnovsky

as Katya's Father

Mikhail Biryuchkov

as Local Criminal Authority

Nadezhda Kobzeva

as Hairdresser

Irina Obidina

as Ignat's Wife

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