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Vassa
Vassa
	Film poster
Directed by	Gleb Panfilov
Written by	Maxim Gorky; Gleb Panfilov
Starring	Inna Churikova
Cinematography	Leonid Kalashnikov
Release date	July 1983;
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.^[1] 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.^[2]

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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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Inna Churikova as Vassa Zheleznova
Vadim Medvedev as Husband
Nikolai Skorobogatov as Brother
Valentina Telichkina as Servant
Olga Mashnaya as Daughter
Yana Poplavskaya as Daughter
Valentina Yakunina as Daughter-in-law
Vyacheslav Bogachyov as Son
Ivan Panfilov as Grandson (as Vanya Panfilov)
Albert Filozov as Melnikov

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^ "13th Moscow International Film Festival (1983)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 7 November 2013. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

External links edit

Vassa at IMDb

[Moscow1983-1] "13th Moscow International Film Festival (1983)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 7 November 2013. Retrieved 30 January 2013.

[2] Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

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