Tale in the Darkness

Sep 10, 2009

1h 16m

★ 4.7

Overview

Angelina lives in a big city on the sea coast, where handsome men and beautiful women are strolling the streets with only one purpose: to have fun, flirt and love. But Angelina, being pretty, intelligent, and nice, finds herself lonely. She is a police officer and her job is helping abandoned kids, orphans, and troubled youngsters. One day one of her charges, a little boy, explains to Angelina how lonely, dull and useless she is. Those words have been bothering her ever since, and she decides to change herself.. Angelina starts her way through the darkness…

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Koktebel Film Company

Tale in the Darkness Trailers

Cast

Gelya

Alisa Khazanova

Dimych

Boris Kamorzin

Bagrat

Yuri Safarov

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Larisa Belobrova

Sanya

Aleksandr Doluda

Irina Sergeyevna

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