Women's Property
1999 Russian film
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Women's Property (Russian: Женская собственность, romanized: Zhenskaya sobstvennost) is a Russian 1999 romantic drama based on the eponymous story by Valentin Chernykh, directed by Dmitry Meskhiev.[1][2]
Natalia Chepik
Valentin Chernykh
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| Directed by | Dmitry Meskhiev |
| Written by | Yuri Korotkov Natalia Chepik Valentin Chernykh |
| Produced by | Yelena Yatsura |
| Starring | Konstantin Khabensky Elena Safonova |
| Cinematography | Yuri Shaigardanov |
| Music by | Ivan Nikolayevich Smirnov Mikhail Smirnov |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
Plot
A young entrant, Andrei Kalinin, passes exams to a theatrical institute. He lacks artistic acumen yet has plenty of charm. After getting to know that there are chances he won't succeed, he decides to convince a member of the committee, Elizaveta Kamenskaya, that he has to enroll exactly that very year. In a sequence of chance events, Andrey falls for her - the prominent actress he used to admire being a child. She is much older than him and lonely. After a few years of relationships, it turns out that she has cancer. Despite her incurable illness, Andrei marries Elizaveta. After her death, his professional life becomes unstable - while his romantic affairs are taking even more unpredictable turns.
Cast
- Konstantin Khabensky as Andrei Kalinin
- Elena Safonova as Elizaveta Kamenskaya, teacher of the theatrical institute
- Aleksandr Abdulov as Sazonov, principal of the theatrical institute
- Amalia Mordvinova as Olga
- Nina Usatova as Raika, film director
- Yury Kuznetsov as Kolosov, theatre director
- Viktor Bychkov as Igor
- Ilya Shakunov as Anton
- Andrei Zibrov as Kostya, Olga's ex-husband
- Tatyana Tkach as Mira, film director
- Tatyana Lyutaeva as Zoya Borschevskaya
- Aleksandr Polovtsev as Yasha, group leader
- Mikhail Porechenkov as Andrei's friend
- Lyubov Tischenko as neighbor
Awards
- 1999 — Best Actress award at the international film festival of actors "Constellation" (Sozvezdie) of the Russian Film Actors Guild (Elena Safonova).[3]
- 2000 — Best Actress award at the 6th Russian film festival "Literature and Cinema" in Gatchina (Nina Usatova).[4]
- 2000 — Best Actor award at the 6th Russian film festival "Literature and Cinema" in Gatchina (Konstantin Khabensky).[4]
- 2000 — Prize of the press "for providing the best program of films" at the VIII All-Russian Film Festival "Vivat, Cinema of Russia!" in St. Petersburg (Dmitry Meskhiev).[5]
