97 minutes
6/25/2007
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.
Kseniya Kutepova
as Natalia
Dmitriy Dyuzhev
as Sergei
Vadim Afanasev
as Natalia's husband
Sofiya Dudarchik
as Olga
Olga Popova
as nurse
Timofey Tribuntsev
as policeman
Aleksandr Oblasov
as security officer
Boris Petroff
as Gleb
Natalia Draichik
as cook
Maksim Zimin
as Grigori
Tamara Khlebnikova
as train conductor
Polina Nechitailo
as bride
Vladislav Rassokhin
as groom
Aleksey Solonitsyn
as sexton
Oleg Bilik
as merry-go-round operator
Yanina Kogut
as cantor
Yevgeni Knyazev
as Father Pyotr