Katya Ismailova - 1994 - Valeriy Todorovskiy

Title: Katya Ismailova
AKA:
Year: 1994
Original title: Podmoskovnye vechera (Russian: Подмосковные вечера)
Runtime: 1 hour, 31 minutes
Country: Russia | France
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English, Français (Embedded, optional VobSub)
Genre: Drama

Director: Valeriy Todorovskiy

Cast
Vladimir Mashkov ... Serguei
Ingeborga Dapkunaite ... Katia
Aleksandr Feklistov ... Mitia
Alisa Frejndlikh ... Irina Dmitrievna
Natalya Shchukina ... Sonia
Yuriy Kuznetsov ... Romanov
Avangard Leontyev ... Editor
Marina Opyonkina
E. Vakhovshaia
S. Razguliaeva
K. Charmadov

Plot / Synopsis
Quote:
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.

~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi in/on NYTimes.com

Optional data
Awards
4 wins and 5 nominations

Review snip
Quote:
A slow-moving but pleasing murder-mystery set in 19th century literary Russia. Dapkounatie is the 'heroine', the downtrodden wife of an immature husband who is packed off to her mother-in-law's (Frenjdlikh) dacha to be unpaid skivvy and typist of the domineering old cow's latest best-selling novel. However, when both women fall for the hunky charms of handyman Mashkov, the situation turns to almost inadvertent murder, guilt and deception as Dapkounatie and Mashkov try to persuade both the police and Frenjdlikh's publisher that she's still alive. There's not much in the way of thrills, but the combination of performances, direction and images on-screen become gradually engrossing.

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External info
• More info on IMDb
• Director article on English Wikipedia

Additional info
• Alternative on this tracker: 640 × 352 Xvid in 753 MB AVI here.

Technical specs
Source: DVD rip off the Internet
Group/Ripper: Unknown
Video Format: H.264/MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding in Matroska (.mkv)
Video Bitrate: Var 1515 kbps
Frame Rate: 25 fps
Resolution: 1020 × 576
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1 (16:9)
Bits/(Pixel*Frame): 0.146
Audio Format: AC-3 2.0
Audio Bitrate: 192 kbps
Sampling rate: 48000 Hz