

My Joy
2010-09-30 · 128 min · ★ 6.3
Georgy is driving a load of freight into Russia when, after an unpleasant encounter with the police at a border crossing, he finds himself giving a lift to a strange old man with disturbing stories about his younger days in the Army. After next picking up a young woman who works as a prostitute and is wary of the territory, Georgy finds himself lost, and despite asking some homeless men for help, he’s less sure than he was before of how to make his way back where he belongs. As brutal images of violence and alienation cross the screen, Georgy’s odyssey becomes darker and more desperate until it reaches an unexpected conclusion.
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- Directors
- Sergei Loznitsa
- Production companies
- ma.ja.de. Fiction, ARTE, Sota Cinema Group
- Countries
- Germany, Ukraine, Netherlands
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Olga ShuvalovaTeenage Prostitute
Vlad IvanovMajor from Moscow
Vladimir GolovinOld Man
Aleksey VertkovYoung Lieutenant
Dmitry GotsdinerCommander
Boris KamorzinTruck driver
Pavel Vorozhtsov
Viktor NemetsGeorgy
Vyacheslav Shikhaleev
Timofey Tribuntsev
Pavel Chukreev
Dmitriy Bykovskiy-Romashov
Dmitriy Mulyar
Konstantin Shelestun
Sergey Kolesov
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