Women's Property

Women's Property (Женская собственность) 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 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 episode
 * 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).