Katya Ismailova (1994)
A wife finds her life transformed after a torrid affair in this story of murder. Katia is a rather dull young woman who types manuscripts for Irina, her husband’s mother and successful writer of romance novels. Katia’s husband is a real momma’s boy. They go to Irina’s summer house to work. There Katia encounters the intense and sexy Serguei who creates passionate longings with in her. Overcome she and Serguei engage in vigorous love-making upon a windowsill where Irina sees them. Irina has a weak heart. Quiet Katia, having rediscovered the joys of sex, changes and becomes more assertive and flighty. Serguei quickly loses interest in her. Strange and deadly things begin happening at the summer house which calls the attention of a judge who is extremely familiar with Irina’s writing.
Director: Valery Todorovsky
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Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė as Katia |
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Vladimir Mashkov as Serguei |
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Aleksandr Feklistov as Mitia |
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Alisa Freyndlikh as Irina Dmitrievna |
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Natalya Shchukina as Sonya |
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Yuriy Kuznetsov as Romanov |
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Avangard Leontyev as Editor |
| Directing | Valery Todorovsky | Director |
| Editing | Hélène Gagarine | Editor |
| Production | Igor Tolstunov | Producer |
| Production | Marc Ruscart | Producer |
| Writing | François Guérif | Writer |
| Writing | Alla Krinitsyna | Writer |
| Writing | Marina Sheptunova | Writer |
| Writing | Cécile Vargaftig | Writer |
| Sound | Leonid Desyatnikov | Music |
| Costume & Make-Up | Aleksandr Osipov | Costume Design |
| Editing | Alla Strelnikova | Editor |
| Camera | Sergei Kozlov | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Gleb Kravetsky | Sound Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Svetlana Razgulyaeva | Makeup Artist |
| Directing | Konstantin Charmadov | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Aleksandr Belkin | Additional Director of Photography |
| Camera | Eduard Gimpel | Additional Director of Photography |
| Writing | Stanislav Govorukhin | Scenario Writer |
