Gloss (film)

CinematographyMaria SolovyovaMusic byEduard Artemyev118 minutesCountryRussiaLanguageRussianBudget$3 million^[1]Box office$4 610 378^[1]

Gloss (Russian: Глянец, romanized: Glyanets) 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.^[2]

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.

• 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

The film was shot in Montenegro, Moscow and Rostov.^[3]

• Gloss at IMDb
• Gloss at Rotten Tomatoes
• Глянец / Gloss - Andrei Konchalovsky's official website