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Vassa (film)

Vassa
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Directed by Gleb Panfilov
Written by Maxim Gorky
Gleb Panfilov
Starring Inna Churikova
Cinematography Leonid Kalashnikov
Release date
  • July 1983 (1983-07)
Running time
140 minutes
Country Soviet Union
Language Russian

Vassa (Russian: Васса) is a 1983 Soviet drama film directed by Gleb Panfilov. It is based on Maxim Gorky's 1910 play Vassa Zheleznova. Vassa won the Golden Prize at the 13th Moscow International Film Festival. The film was also selected as the Soviet entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 56th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

The film tells the story of a merchant family's decline. Vassa Zheleznova for many years works as head of her family business and in spite of her mischief-making children, dissolute husband, an alcoholic brother and anarchist sister-in-law, tries to maintain a semblance of a normal family. The year 1913 arrives and all of what her life is dedicated to becomes shattered.


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