Travelling with Pets

Overview

Plucked from an orphanage as a literal love slave, the now adult Natalija (a luminous Kseniya Kutepova) serves her ape-like husband by tending his prized cow—whose milk they sell to customers on passing trains. When hubby suddenly drops dead, however, Natalija’s narrow life of cows and rails finally starts opening up. Dumping his body at the local hospital, dropping by church to say a few prayers and trading in the cow for a pet goat, she slowly eliminates all trace of his former hold on her, searching out a new life in the freedom that emerges.

Directed by Vera Storozheva

Top cast

Kseniya Kutepova

Natalia

Dmitriy Dyuzhev

Sergei

V

Vadim Afanasev

Natalia's husband

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Sofiya Dudarchik

Olga

O

Olga Popova

nurse

Timofey Tribuntsev

policeman

Aleksandr Oblasov

security officer

Boris Petroff

Gleb

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Natalia Draichik

cook

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Maksim Zimin

Grigori

Tamara Khlebnikova

train conductor

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Polina Nechitailo

bride

V

Vladislav Rassokhin

groom

Aleksey Solonitsyn

sexton

Oleg Bilik

merry-go-round operator

Yanina Kogut

cantor

Yevgeni Knyazev

Father Pyotr

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