Tatyana Drubich Movies
- 2000
This contemporary look at life in Russia's capital opens with hard-drinking night club owner Irina (Natalia Koliakanova) celebrating the engagement of her daughter Masha (Ingeborga Dapkunaite) to Mike (Alexander Baluev), a businessman gangster and ballet patron. Irina's youngest daughter Olga (Tatiana Drubich) sings atonal songs for the affluent customers of her mother's Western-style club, who are unaware of Olga's past hospitalization for mental problems. Irina busies herself with a psychotherapist (Viktor Gvozditsky), but also takes a fancy to Mike; when Masha catches her fiancé in a clinch with her mother, she merely shrugs it off and becomes besotted with Lev (Stanislav Pavlov), Mike's drug runner. Lev also becomes the object of Olga's affection and treats his admirer to a round of subway sex. Dysfunction, kinky couplings, and gangland-style revenge abound. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Tatyana Drubich, (more)
- 1989
In the heady days just prior to the collapse of the Soviet system in Russia, a satirical, anarchistic comedy such as this was just the sort of film to attract huge audiences. Told with the rapid-fire imagery and insistent soundtrack of a music video, it tells the story of Aleksandra (Tatyana Drubich), a self-centered 20-year old girl who escapes from her tiny apartment after she has been locked into by her father it to make her study for her exams. Instead, she parties with her boyfriend Vladimir (Alexander Abdulov) who is perfectly happy to make love to her until he discovers she is pregnant. Nearby, Mitya (Mikhail Rozanov), a suddenly rich fifteen year old boy, shares a flat with his crazed roommate, an Abyssinian given to brewing his own alcoholic beverages. Somehow, Mitya hears of Allesandra's predicament and offers to marry her - which pleases her parents a great deal (after all, he's rich). Most of the fun in this movie comes from in-jokes at the expense of the government's sacred cows, and jokes at the expense of the movie itself and its characters. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tatyana Drubich, Alexander Abdulov, (more)
- 1989
- R
This drama about a man's obsession with a ghost known as the black monk is taken from the classic novel by Anton Checkhov. Korvin (Stanislav Lyubshin) encounters the spirit, and the monk advises him to live life to the fullest. The monk, who is never seen, assures Korvin he is not mad. Korvin hopes to marry the strikingly beautiful Tania (Tatiana Drubich), the daughter of an eccentric old man (Petr Fomenko) with a penchant for gardening. When father and daughter find Korvin talking to himself, they demand he seek medical treatment. Korvin's visit to the doctor results in the loss of his ability to speak to spirits and he becomes angry and violent. He feels he has lost the one thing that has made him individually unique and he leaves the idyllic garden for a life of terminal unhappiness. This is the directorial debut for the celebrated Ivan Dykhovichny. Stellar cinematography is provided by Vadim Yusov, an acknowledged master of his media. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tatyana Drubich, Petr Fomenko, (more)
- 1988
This trendy and lively Soviet crime drama is set at a Black Sea resort Yalta in 1980 and centers upon a murderous con man who becomes involved with gangsters after he steals a rare violin. The crook's beautiful mistress accompanies him. Though she is totally in love with him, she befriends a charismatic punk rocker and finds herself attracted to him as well. The rocker falls for her and ends up finding himself drawn into her lover's world of crime. The gangster warns the punk to back off and leave his girl friend alone, but the young rebel refuses to listen. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sergei Bugayev, Tatyana Drubich, (more)
- 1986
The setting for this off-beat drama of love and jealousy is the Pushkin Poetry Festival in Boldino. Liosha (Oleg Yankovsky) and his wife Tania (Tatiana Drubich) are walking through the plush forest around Boldino when a mysterious figure pops up from behind a tree and asks the couple a question on an esoteric point of Pushkin scholarship. From that strange beginning, the man, whose name is Klimov (Alexander Abdulov), starts to ease himself into the couple's private space, and trouble ensues. Complementing this story is the festival itself, enactments of Pushkin's works, and emotional debates among the festival-goers over the meaning of his poetry. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Oleg Yankovsky, Tatyana Drubich, (more)
- 1983
In a compelling drama that moves rapidly along, a rich German baron leaves his country in 1944 to live in Latin America -- where he discovers the truth about Nazi atrocities and fanaticism and where he also falls in love with Olga (Tatyana Drubich) an impoverished local woman. She reciprocates his feelings and the two begin an affair, a relationship that antagonizes the already nasty American consul who would like to arrest the baron -- not so much because he has a German passport, but because the consul is also interested in Olga. In order to save the man she loves, Olga goes to the consulate and gives in to the consul's sexual demands. Meanwhile, a little orphan who is devoted to Olga (and ostensibly, to the baron as well) is taunted by his friends who shout slurs on Olga's character -- they know what she has done at the consulate. In agony over their sarcasm, the little boy steals a gun from the baron with the full intent of taking justice into his own hands. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Leonid Filatov, Tatyana Drubich, (more)
- 1982
An imaginative 13-year-old teenager maintains that the great Russian writer Alexander Pushkin was her direct ancestor, something that intrigues a 19-year-old cousin who comes to visit. She takes him to a decaying country house that she says was the place where her illustrious forbear trysted with a certain young lady. When he hears more of the girl's story and sees the house, her cousin starts to have serious doubts about this tall tale, and after he meets an intriguing young lady himself, he shatters his little cousin's illusions with the truth -- something she was not quite prepared to hear. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tatyana Drubich, Tanya Kovshova, (more)
- 1977
In the eternal world of teenagers Yelena Proklova plays Nadya, a girl being wooed by a persistent youth. Her family life is unsettled and unhappy, and the two of them spend much of their time deep in conversation, walking through the city. Her distress on learning that her mother has a terminal illness leads her to seek comfort in his arms. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sergei Nagorny, Yelena Proklova, (more)
- 1975
At one time, a competently made Soviet film which lacked the usual heavy-handed ideological slant was guaranteed to be popular in Eastern Bloc countries. Sto Dney Posle Detstva was one of those. Mitya (Boris Tokarev) is a young lad with a yen for the girl Lena (Tatiana Drubich). She, however, prefers the attentions of a fellow named Gleb (Yuri Agilin). After considerable rivalry and a fight or two, Mitya discovers that Sonya (Irina Malysheva), who returns his affection, is more his cup of tea. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Boris A. Tokarev, Tatyana Drubich, (more)
