Prostitute (Russian: Проститутка, romanized: Prostitutka) also known as Slain by Life (Russian: Убитая жизнью, romanized: Ubitaya Zhiznyu) is a 1927 Soviet silent drama film directed by Oleg Frelikh.

[1][2] The film is set in Moscow during the mid 1920s, heyday of the New Economic Policy, or NEP.

But Lyuba does not stay in the street for long, she is sheltered by a woman she meets, who turns out to be a brothel madam.

Left without a livelihood, Vera is forced by the situation to give herself to the butcher (the boss of her deceased husband), and then to sell her body.

Among the saviors is Lyuba who managed to escape from the brothel and now works in a sewing workshop at a venereal dispensary.

Life is getting better for Vera too because Shura helps her get a job as a railway points operator and her children begin to go the kindergarten.