Women's Property

Women's Property
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
Production company	Mosfilm
Release date	1999 (1999)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian

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.

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 [ru] 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).
• 2000 — Best Actress award at the 6th Russian film festival "Literature and Cinema" in Gatchina (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 (Dmitry Meskhiev).

References

External links

• Women's Property at IMDb

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