Virginity
Russia, 2008, 86 min Documentary
Director Vitaly Mansky
Screenplay Dmitry Bykov
synopsis
Three teen girls, all over 18, make the journey from the provinces to Moscow in order to sell or barter the one possession they believe is of any value, their maidenhood.
creators
Vitaly Mansky
He was born in Lvov in 1963 and graduated from the filmmaking school VGIK in 1990. His career in documentary films took off in 1999, when he became the writer and presenter of the Russian television show 'Real Cinema'. He has created an internet journal about documentary film. He is probably best known for his 2003 film 'The Anatomy of Tatu', which follows the pop duo on a tour around the US.
Dmitry Bykov
Born in 1967, Dmitry Bykov is a prolific, award-winning prose writer, whose works almost invariably give rise to heated debates in the literary press. He is also a widely published poet of some eight collections of poetry and he recently published an impressive, detailed new biography on Boris Pasternak, for which he was awarded the ‘Big Book' prize in 2007. Since the 1990s, Dmitry Bykov has produced a constant stream of newspaper articles, reviews and essays on a wide range of subjects from literature to politics. He has also hosted a weekly radio show and some television discussion programmes.