''Vassa'' (russian: Васса) is a 1983 Soviet
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
Gleb Panfilov
Gleb Anatolyevich Panfilov (russian: Глеб Анатольевич Панфилов, link=no; born 21 May 1934 in Magnitogorsk) is an internationally acclaimed Russian film director noted for a string of mostly historical films starring his wif ...
. It is based on
Maxim Gorky
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (russian: Макси́м Го́рький, link=no), was a Russian writer and social ...
's 1910 play ''
Vassa Zheleznova''. ''Vassa'' won the Golden Prize at the
13th Moscow International Film Festival
The 13th Moscow International Film Festival
The Moscow International Film Festival (russian: Моско́вский междунаро́дный кинофестива́ль, translit. ''Moskóvskiy myezhdunaródniy kinofyestivál''; ab ...
.
The film was also selected as the Soviet entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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at the
56th Academy Awards
The 56th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1983 and took place on April 9, 1984, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, beginning at 6:00 p. ...
, but was not accepted as a nominee.
[Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]
Plot
The film tells the story of a merchant family's decline. Vassa Zheleznova for many years works as head of her family business and in spite of her mischief-making children, dissolute husband, an alcoholic brother and anarchist sister-in-law, tries to maintain a semblance of a normal family. The year 1913 arrives and all of what her life is dedicated to becomes shattered.
Cast
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Inna Churikova
Inna Mikhailovna Churikova (russian: Инна Михайловна Чурикова; born 5 October 1943) is a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress.
Biography
Churikova was born in Belebey, Bashkir ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. In t ...
as Vassa Zheleznova
* Vadim Medvedev as Husband
*
Nikolai Skorobogatov
Nikolay Arkadevich Skorobogatov (russian: Никола́й Арка́дьевич Скоробога́тов; December 19, 1923, Vyazma, Vyazemsky Uyezd, Smolensk Governorate — June 10, 1987, Moscow) was a Soviet film and theater actor.
Biog ...
as Brother
*
Valentina Telichkina
Valentina Ivanovna Telichkina (russian: Валенти́на Ива́новна Тели́чкина; born January 10, 1945) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2009).
Biography
Valentina ...
as Servant
* Olga Mashnaya as Daughter
* Yana Poplavskaya as Daughter
* Valentina Yakunina as Daughter-in-law
* Vyacheslav Bogachyov as Son
* Ivan Panfilov as Grandson (as Vanya Panfilov)
*
Albert Filozov as Melnikov
See also
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References
External links
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1983 films
1983 drama films
1980s Russian-language films
Films directed by Gleb Panfilov
Films based on works by Maxim Gorky
Films set in 1913
Films set in Nizhny Novgorod
Films set in the Russian Empire
Films shot in Nizhny Novgorod
Soviet films based on plays
Soviet drama films
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