Gloss (film)

Gloss (Глянец) 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.