Women's Property
{{Infobox film
| name = Women's Property
| image = Women's_Property.jpg
| caption =
| director = Dmitry Meskhiev
| writer = Yuri Korotkov
Natalia Chepik
Valentin Chernykh
| starring = Konstantin Khabensky
Elena Safonova
| music = Ivan Nikolayevich Smirnov
Mikhail Smirnov
| cinematography = Yuri Shaigardanov
| editing =
| producer = Yelena Yatsura
| story =
| studio = Mosfilm
| released = {{film date|1999}}
| runtime = 89 minutes
| country = Russia
| language = Russian
}}
Women's Property ({{langx|ru|Женская собственность|Zhenskaya sobstvennost}}) is a Russian 1999 romantic drama based on the eponymous story by Valentin Chernykh, directed by Dmitry Meskhiev.{{cite web|url=https://russia.tv/brand/show/brand_id/6080/|publisher=Russia-1|title=Женская собственность. Х/Ф}}{{citation|url=http://www.kinoart.ru/archive/2007/01/n1-article10|publisher=Iskusstvo Kino|title=Неврастеник смутного времени. Портрет Константина Хабенского|author=Alexandra Mashukova|issue=1|year=2007}}
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
- {{ill|Amalia Mordvinova|ru|Мордвинова, Амалия Руслановна}} 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).{{Cite web|url=http://www.tverlife.ru/news/80769.html?month=9&year=2016&day=21|publisher=tverlife.ru|title=Жаркое "Созвездие" 1999 года|access-date=2018-02-06|archive-date=2018-02-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207063240/http://www.tverlife.ru/news/80769.html?month=9&year=2016&day=21|url-status=dead}}
- 2000 — Best Actress award at the 6th Russian film festival "Literature and Cinema" in Gatchina (Nina Usatova).{{cite web|url=http://www.gatchina.biz/fest?2000|publisher=Literature and Cinema Film Festival|title=Шестой кинофестиваль "Литература и кино" (2000 год)}}
- 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).{{cite web|url=http://kinoglaz.fr/u_fiche_film.php?lang=ru&num=1535|publisher=KinoGlaz|title=Женская собственность}}
References
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