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Iosif Kheifits Iosif Yefimovich Kheifits ( be, Іосіф Яўхімавіч Хейфіц; – 24 April 1995) was a Soviet film director, winner of two Stalin Prizes (1941, 1946), People's Artist of USSR (1964), Hero of Socialist Labor (1975). Member of t ...

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Oleg Karavaychuk Oleg Nikolayevich Karavaichuk (russian: Оле́г Никола́евич Каравайчу́к; 28 December 1927 – 13 June 2016) was a Soviet and Russian composer, author of music for many films and theater performances. Biography Karavayc ...

, cinematography = Genrikh Marandzhyan , editing = Raisa Izakson , released = 1977 , studio =

Lenfilm Lenfilm (russian: link=no, Ленфильм) is a Russian production company with its own film studio located in Saint Petersburg (the city was called Leningrad from 1924 to 1991, thus the name). It is a corporation with its stakes shared betwee ...

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Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

, language = Russian , budget = ''Asya'' (russian: Ася) is a 1977 Soviet drama film directed by

. It is an adaptation of the 1857 novella '' Asya'' by

Ivan Turgenev Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (; rus, links=no, Ива́н Серге́евич Турге́невIn Turgenev's day, his name was written ., p=ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf; 9 November 1818 – 3 September 1883 (Old Style dat ...

Plot

The film is set on the banks of the

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. The protagonist N.N. is a strange girl named Asya, who has an extraordinary power of love.Ася
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Cast

* Elena Koreneva as Asya *

Igor Kostolevsky Igor Matveyevich Kostolevsky (russian: Игорь Матвеевич Костолевский; born 10 September 1948) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He has received the People's Artist of Russia title in 1995. Kostolevsky is best k ...

as Gagin *

Vyacheslav Yezepov Vyacheslav, also transliterated Viacheslav or Viatcheslav (russian: Вячеслав, Vjačeslav ; uk, В'ячеслав, V"jačeslav ), is a Russian and Ukrainian masculine given name. It is the equivalent of Belarusian Вячаслаў/Вацл� ...

as N.N. * Gertrud Brendler as episode * Kirill Gun as cashier at the shipping company * Yuri Medvedev as russian man in a German restaurant

Production

Andrei Mironov auditioned for the role of Gagin.

Awards

Prizes for Best Actress ( Elena Koreneva)

Locarno International Film Festival The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, sh ...

(Switzerland, 1976), at the

Taormina Film Fest Taormina Film Fest (TFF) is a film festival that began in 1955 under the name Rassegna Cinematografica Internazionale di Messina e Taormina. The exhibition, which moved permanently to Taormina in 1971, has hosted over the years many stars of inter ...

(Italy, 1978), and International Film Festival in Cobourg (France, 1977). Asya
at the kino-teatr.ru

References

External links

* {{Iosif Kheifits 1977 films 1970s Russian-language films Soviet drama films Films based on works by Ivan Turgenev 1977 drama films Lenfilm films Films directed by Iosif Kheifits Films based on Russian novels