Inna Churikova, Vadim Medvedev, Nikolaĭ Skorobogatov, Olʹga Mashnai͡a, I͡Aana Poplavskai͡a, Valentina I͡Akunina, Vani͡a Panfilov, Valentina Telichkina, Vi͡acheslav Bogachev, Alʹbert Filozov, Vsevolod Sobolev. Based on Maxim Gorky's Vassa Zheleznova. Special features: interviews with director G. Panfilov, director of photography L. Kalashnikov ; photo album "Vassa Zheleznova and others" ; biography of Maxime Gorky ; filmographies ; trailers.
Summary:
Based on the play by Maxim Gorky, a look at Russian society just before the October Revolution of 1917. Focuses on the powerful matriarch of a wealthy industrial family, who controls people and her business interests in the same impersonal and autocratic manner.
Series:
Russian Cinema Council collection. Original story by
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