Gloss () is a 2007 Russian satirical melodrama directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. The picture opened the 2007 Kinotavr film festival, and was part of the competition program.
Plot
Galya, a young worker in a provincial factory, dreams of becoming a successful model. One day she leaves her alcoholic parents together with her violent boyfriend and goes to Moscow. She ends up getting hired by a great couturier as a seamstress. During one of their shows, she walks the runway as a model, which causes her to be fired on the spot. Then, seemingly by chance, she becomes the assistant of the owner of a highly exclusive matchmaking agency, which arranges marriages for rich men with the most beautiful models in Moscow. Galya, who only thinks of a career, advances in this world of luxury and money and will do everything to achieve her goals.
Cast
Julia Vysotskaya — Galya Sokolova
Juris Lauciņš — Fedor, father of Galya
Efim Shifrin — Mark Schiffer, fashion designer
Aleksei Serebryakov — Stasis
Gennady Smirnov — Petya, the owner of the model agency
Irina Rozanova — Marina Yurievna, editor of the glossy magazine
Aleksandr Domogarov — Misha Klimenko
Olga Arntgolts — Nastya
Tatyana Arntgolts — Oksana
Olga Miloyanina — Jeanne
Alexei Grishin — director
Artemy Troitsky — thief in the law
Alexey Kolgan — Volodya
Fyodor Bondarchuk
Gosha Kutsenko
Alexander Ilyin — Mikula
Sergei Makovetsky
Andrey Noskov — Gleb
Yola Sanko — Galya's mother
Nikolai Fomenko
Elena Drobysheva
Yana Poplavskaya
Ilya Isaev — Viteok
Elena Perova
Oleg Komarov
Vladimir Shiryaev
Elmira Tuyusheva — Ingeborge
Yuliya Snigir — model
Galina Stakhanova — old weaver
Production
The film was shot in Montenegro, Moscow and Rostov.