The dissolute way of life of Mariya Egorova, nicknamed "Magdalene", abruptly ends - her friend, driving her into debt and putting her "on the counter", taking her passport, through a pimp she knows, offers her to work as a prostitute. During the conversation, Mariya breaks the pimp's head, ends up in the police station, from where she escapes. Now bandits and the police are looking for her, and she urgently needs to find money to buy a passport and leave the city with her daughter.
Gennadiy Voronin
Director
Larisa Guzeeva
Mariya 'Magdalina' Egorova
Mariya Kapitskaya
Vasyona
Nikolai Makushenko
Birkin
Yuri Platonov
Major
Yuri Chekulayev
Port Security Guard
Marina Golub
Svetlana
Aleksandra Nazarova
Landlady
Zhanna Tokarskaya
Zina
Andrey Koshelev
Viktor
Aleksandr Filippenko
Priest
Vladimir Shikhov
Korkin
A lot of us are emotionally impacted by the current pandemic. So, while we’re all stuck here in our homes, it’s great to put on a movie to ease the stress. With that, I made up a small list of some of my favorite feel-good movies.
Based off the book of the same name, ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’ (2018) follows teenager Cameron Post (Chloë Grace Moretz) after she is caught being intimate with another girl and then sent away to a gay conversion camp.
Eloquent and informative, Hajera Sheikh’s documentary Kathak: Dancing With Taboos tells a story of love for one’s culture and perseverance through adversity.
This side-splitting workplace comedy features a diverse cast and tackles challenging social issues. Other sitcoms should take note.
A film about family and sacrifice... and carnivorous locusts coming after you.
It doesn’t offer an absolute answer for the dialectical ethical questions that emerged in search of justice but portrays the characters as living people beyond the identities of victims.