Tambourine, Drum

Tambourine, Drum is a 2009 Russian drama film directed by Aleksey Mizgiryov.
The Silver Leopard for Best Director at the Locarno Film Festival and the Golden Eagle Award for Best Actress.

Plot

The film tells about the head of the library, Katya, who falls in love with a sailor who leaves her for her friend. As a result, Katya is ready to give the apartment to someone who kills her opponent.

Cast

Natalya Negoda as Katya
Elena Lyadova as Katya's friend
Dmitriy Kulichkov as sailor
Sergey Neudachin as Igor
Aleksandr Alyoshkin as Andrey
Oleg Vasilkov as Ignat
Irina Obidina as Ignat's wife
Liubomiras Laucevicius as episode
Sergey Sosnovsky as Katya's father
Nadezhda Kobzeva as Tamara

Critical response

Vasily Koretsky noted: "The problems here are as old as 'The Cherry Orchard', and I'm afraid they're eternal: non-possessiveness versus worldly wisdom, the intelligentsia versus the merchants, and beliefs versus reality. The eternal hypocritical duality of the Russian consciousness takes on the scale of an all-encompassing existential conflict in the film".