''Woman's World'' (russian: Бабье царство, Babye tsarstvo) is a 1967

war film War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about naval, air, or land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama. It has been strongly associated with the 20th century. The fateful nature of battle scenes means that war fi ...

directed by Alexey Saltykov. The film was a box-office leader in the USSR in the year 1968, fourth place 49.6 million viewers.

Plot

The film is about a simple female

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farmer, who heads the women of the village during the war and the horror of the Nazi occupation which deprives her of her son, her husband and her home ...

Cast

Rimma Markova Rimma Vasilievna Markova (russian: Римма Васильевна Маркова; 3 March 1925 – 15 January 2015) was a Russian film actress. She was named a People's Artist of Russia in 1994, whereas her younger brother Leonid Markov was nam ...

as Nadezhda Petrovna *

Nina Sazonova Nina Afanasievna Sazonova (russian: Ни́на Афана́сьевна Сазо́нова; 1917 — 2004) was a leading actress of the Soviet Army Theatre in Moscow. The daughter of a peasant, she joined Aleksey Popov's theatre school at the ...

as Anna Sergeevna *Alexandra Dorokhin as Marina, wife of Jean *Svetlana Sukhovey as Dunyasha Noskova *Valentina Stolbova as Sophia, the wife of Basil *Svetlana Zhgun as Nastya *

Vitaly Solomin Vitaly Mefodievich Solomin (russian: link=no, Виталий Мефодьевич Соломин; 12 December 194127 May 2002) was a Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter, best remembered for playing Dr. Watson in a series of Sherlock ...

as Kostya Lubentsov *Aleksei Krychenkov as Kolya, son of Nadezhda Petrovna *

Aleksandr Grave Aleksandr Konstantinovich Grave (russian: Александр Константинович Граве; September 8, 1920 – March 5, 2010)

as store manager *

Fyodor Odinokov Fyodor Ivanovich Odinokov (russian: Фёдор Ива́нович Одино́ков; — 19 February 1994) was a Soviet actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1938 to 1994. Selected filmography References External links * * ...

as Vasily Petrichenko *

Yefim Kopelyan Yefim Zakharovich Kopelyan (russian: Ефим Захарович Копелян; 12 April 1912 – 6 March 1975) was a Soviet Union, Soviet actor of theatre and cinema, one of the legendary masters of the Bolshoi Theatre of Drama (BDT) in Leni ...

Nazi Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...

commandant Caspar

Awards

*VKF (

All-Union Film Festival The All-Union Film Festival (russian: Всесоюзный кинофестиваль; tr.:''Vsesoyuznyy kinofestival'', also known as ВКФ; ''VKF'') was one of the most important film festivals of the Soviet Union. It was founded in 1958 and hel ...

) **1970 — Diploma and Award for Best Actress (Rimma Markova) *

San Sebastián International Film Festival The San Sebastián International Film Festival ( SSIFF; es, Festival Internacional de San Sebastián, eu, Donostia Zinemaldia) is an annual FIAPF A category film festival held in the Spanish city of Donostia-San Sebastián in September, in th ...

**1968 — Special Diploma for Best Actress (Rimma Markova)

References

External links

* Soviet war drama films 1960s war drama films Mosfilm films Films directed by Alexey Saltykov Films based on works by Yuri Nagibin 1967 drama films 1967 films 1960s Russian-language films {{1960s-USSR-film-stub