在这部国际女郎剧情/爱情片中,主要讲述一个叫达妮娅的女护士，同时还操着皮肉生涯，一次机会她遇上了瑞典工程师爱德华并与之成婚，后来移居瑞典，成了个所谓的“国际女郎”，被其他女孩们羡慕得不得了。然而因为文化阶级的差异和达妮娅以前的妓女生涯，夫妻二人的生活道路越走越泥泞；留在苏联的妈妈因为受不了舆论和环境的打压而自杀，达妮娅在赶回苏联路上却遭遇车祸，同时一批批的国际女郎们正踏上达妮娅的旧路。
幕后：
本片曾引起很大的反响，因为它将矛头对准了解体前苏联社会的道德沦丧和混乱无序等阴暗面，是一部很尖锐反映社会问题的写实电影。导演没有施加道德批判的鞭子来对待达妮娅，却满怀关爱和同情来审视她们可悲的生活，从而带出对当时苏联社会人心浮荡、经济不景和道德迷惘的批判和谴责。
获奖与提名：
获得1990年苏俄金像奖最佳女主角奖
获得1989年东京国际电影节最佳女主角奖、评委会特别奖
提名1990年苏俄金像奖最佳男配角奖
(1989) is a film adaptation of the eponymous book by , set in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in the time of "perestroika" during the 1980s. Tatyana is a beautiful Russian nurse who is underpaid at her hospital job, so she turns a prostitute catering to international tourists. She becomes well paid in dollars, and helps her ailing mother to survive. Tatyana's international clients enlighten her about the life in other countries, so she accepts a marriage in order to escape from the grim Soviet reality. But even being married to a decent man abroad, she still suffers from being labeled as an ex-Soviet prostitute, and her new life is full of new troubles.
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