Travelling with Pets (2007)
Plucked from an orphanage as a literal love slave, the now adult Natalija (a luminous Kseniya Kutepova) serves her ape-like husband by tending his prized cow—whose milk they sell to customers on passing trains. When hubby suddenly drops dead, however, Natalija’s narrow life of cows and rails finally starts opening up. Dumping his body at the local hospital, dropping by church to say a few prayers and trading in the cow for a pet goat, she slowly eliminates all trace of his former hold on her, searching out a new life in the freedom that emerges.
Director: Vera Storozheva
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Kseniya Kutepova as Natalia |
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Dmitriy Dyuzhev as Sergei |
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Vadim Afanasev as Natalia's husband |
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Sofiya Dudarchik as Olga |
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Olga Popova as nurse |
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Timofey Tribuntsev as policeman |
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Aleksandr Oblasov as security officer |
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Boris Petroff as Gleb |
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Natalia Draichik as cook |
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Maksim Zimin as Grigori |
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Tamara Khlebnikova as train conductor |
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Polina Nechitailo as bride |
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Vladislav Rassokhin as groom |
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Aleksey Solonitsyn as sexton |
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Oleg Bilik as merry-go-round operator |
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Yanina Kogut as cantor |
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Yevgeni Knyazev as Father Pyotr |
| Directing | Vera Storozheva | Director |
| Writing | Arkadiy Krasilshchikov | Writer |
| Production | Sabina Eremeeva | Producer |
| Sound | Andrey Khudyakov | Sound Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Irina Ulyanova | Makeup Artist |
| Directing | Olesia Ovchinnikova | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Oleg Shuvaev | Additional Director of Photography |
| Camera | Alik Tagirov | Steadicam Operator |
| Sound | Ilya Shipilov | Music |
| Art | Igor Kotsarev | Art Direction |
| Costume & Make-Up | Marina Ananyeva | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Irina Lunina | Costume Design |
| Editing | Vincent Deyveax | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Irina Ulyanova | Makeup & Hair |
| Production | Igor Tolstunov | Producer |
| Camera | Oleg Lukichyov | Director of Photography |