''Women's Property'' () is a Russian 1999
romantic drama
Romance films involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion (emotion), passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their ...
based on the eponymous story by
Valentin Chernykh
Valentin Konstantinovich Chernykh (; 12 March 1935 – 6 August 2012) was a Soviet and Russian screenwriter, playwright and director. He wrote for more than 35 films between 1972 and 2011. He was the Head of the Jury at the 27th Moscow Int ...
, directed by
Dmitry Meskhiev
Dmitry Dmitriyevich Meskhiev (, born 31 October 1963) is a Russian film director. His 2004 film ''Our Own (2004 film), Our Own'' won the Golden George at the 26th Moscow International Film Festival, and his 2015 work Battalion (2015 film), ''Batt ...
.
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
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Konstantin Khabensky
Konstantin Yurievich Khabensky, People's Artist of Russia, PAR (; born 11 January 1972) is a Russian actor of stage and film, director and philanthropist.
From 1997 he was part of the Saint Petersburg Lensoviet Theatre cast until 2000, after whi ...
as Andrei Kalinin
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Elena Safonova as Elizaveta Kamenskaya, teacher of the theatrical institute
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as Sazonov, principal of the theatrical institute
* as Olga
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Nina Usatova
Nina Nikolayevna Usatova (; born October 1, 1951, in Altai Krai) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress. People's Artist of Russia (1994). as Raika, film director
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Yury Kuznetsov as Kolosov, theatre director
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Viktor Bychkov as Igor
*Ilya Shakunov as Anton
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Andrei Zibrov
Andrei Yurievich Zibrov (; 5 July 1973, Leningrad, USSR) is a Russian actor.
He has acted on stage on Lensovet Theatre.
On the night of Friday, April 23 to Saturday, April 24, 2010, at the house No. 11 on Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt, Zibrov wa ...
as Kostya, Olga's ex-husband
*Tatyana Tkach as Mira, film director
*
Tatyana Lyutaeva
Tatyana Borisovna Lyutaeva (, born 12 March 1965) is a Soviet, Lithuanian, Russian theater actress, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2014). Member of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation.[Mikhail Porechenkov
Mikhail Yevgenyevich Porechenkov (; born 2 March 1969) is a Russian film actor, producer, director. He became famous after his lead role as FSB Agent Alexey Nikolayev in the TV series ''National Security Agent'' (1999–2005). In 2008, Porechenko ...]
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
The Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation (), also known as the Russian Filmmakers' Union, is the trade union of cinematographers, actors, and other professionals of Russian cinema. Founded in 1991, it was preceded by the Guild of ...
(Elena Safonova).
*2000 — Best Actress award at the 6th Russian film festival "Literature and Cinema" in
Gatchina
Gatchina (, ) is a town and the administrative center of Gatchinsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It lies south-south-west of St. Petersburg, along the E95 highway which links Saint Petersburg and Pskov. Population: It was pr ...
(Nina Usatova).
*2000 — Best Actor award at the 6th Russian film festival "Literature and Cinema" in Gatchina (Konstantin Khabensky).
*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
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601, ...
(Dmitry Meskhiev).
References
External links
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Russian romantic drama films
1999 romantic drama films
1999 films
Films directed by Dmitry Meskhiev
1990s satirical films
Russian satirical films
1990s Russian-language films
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