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Gloss (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Gloss' is a 2007 Russian satirical melodrama directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. The picture opened the 2007 Kinotavr film festival, and was part of the competition program.
Plot
Galya, a young worker in a provincial factory, dreams of becoming a successful model. One day she leaves her alcoholic parents together with her violent boyfriend and goes to Moscow. She ends up getting hired by a great couturier as a seamstress. During one of their shows, she walks the runway as a model, which causes her to be fired on the spot. Then, seemingly by chance, she becomes the assistant of the owner of a highly exclusive matchmaking agency, which arranges marriages for rich men with the most beautiful models in Moscow. Galya, who only thinks of a career, advances in this world of luxury and money and will do everything to achieve her goals.
Cast
*Julia Vysotskaya Galya Sokolova
*Juris Lauci Fedor, father of Galya
*Efim Shifrin Mark Schiffer, fashion designer
*Aleksei Serebryakov Stasis
*Gennady Smirnov Petya, the owner of the model agency
*Irina Rozanova Marina Yurievna, editor of the glossy magazine
*Aleksandr Domogarov Misha Klimenko
*Olga Arntgolts Nastya
*Tatyana Arntgolts Oksana
*Olga Miloyanina Jeanne
*Alexei Grishin director
*Artemy Troitsky thief in the law
*Alexey Kolgan Volodya
*Fyodor Bondarchuk
*Gosha Kutsenko
*Alexander Ilyin Mikula
*Sergei Makovetsky
*Andrey Noskov Gleb
*Yola Sanko Galya's mother
*Nikolai Fomenko
*Elena Drobysheva
*Yana Poplavskaya
*Ilya Isaev Viteok
*Elena Perova
*Oleg Komarov
*Vladimir Shiryaev
*Elmira Tuyusheva Ingeborge
*Yuliya Snigir model
*Galina Stakhanova old weaver
Production
The film was shot in Montenegro, Moscow and Rostov.
References
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