Confession of a kept woman

Maria comes to Moscow to enter VGIK , but it ends in failure. She is ashamed to return home, she decides to stay. She bears the fate of all such provincial losers - everyone who comes across her tries to use her - at first the Caucasian tries to rape her, then - all other acquaintances. But then she meets Vadim. Vadim worked in Vneshtorg , but during Perestroika he remained in the West and organized his enterprise there. Maria becomes his mistress , lives in Russia and is his business partner. Maria is in love with Vadim, although he is considered his " kept woman ."

Soon Vadim is taken hostage by bandits who demand a substantial ransom for him, 100 thousand dollars . He instructs Mary to raise money and she proceeds to the search. First, she turns to his acquaintances, businessmen, but they give only 10 thousand, then Maria contacts the police, who offers to enter into negotiations with the bandits, offering them different conditions. As a result, an agreement was reached that she would give back the collected 96 thousand, pushing a bag from the balcony, while an ambush was set up in her apartment, but the operation due to chance (the appearance of a patrol car) was disrupted.

• Marina Zudina - Maria Smirnova, provincial woman kept
• Mikhail Zhigalov - Shmelkov Aleksey Platonovich, investigator, police lieutenant colonel
• Lyudmila Nilskaya - Dina Petrovna Kozina, Vadim's first wife
• Vsevolod Larionov - Michael Keyton, English diplomat
• Igor Yankovsky - Vadim, businessman, former diplomatic worker
• Igor Dmitriev - Lurie
• Igor Kashintsev - police colonel, head of the investigation department
• Victor Kosykh - Andrey Kozhanov, jockey
• Timothy Fedorov - Kononov
• Valery Gonchar - Tyapa, Vostryakov Vladlen Vladlenovich, recidivist
• Alexander Grunda

• Script writer: Alexandra Sviridova
• Director: Boris Grigoriev
• Operator: Vadim Semenov

The film traces the connection with other films of Boris Grigoriev - “ Petrovka, 38 ” and “ Ogareva, 6 ”. In particular, the same music sounds, the selection of artists (Mikhail Zhigalov and Lyudmila Nilskaya played in the film Petrovka 38, Vsevolod Larionov Ogareva 6). In one of the episodes, when Lt. Col. Shmelkov, played by Mikhail Zhigalov, is sitting with Maria in her apartment waiting for the bandits to ring, the film “Petrovka 38” is shown on television - the episode of the persecution of the hijacked taxi gangster “Sudar” played by Mikhail Zhigalov.

• "Confession of a kept woman" on the site "Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema"
• The film on the site ruskino.ru