''Woman's World'' () is a 1967

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directed by Alexey Saltykov. The film was a box-office leader in the USSR in the year 1968, fourth place 49.6 million viewers.

Plot

The film is about a simple female

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farmer, who heads the women of the village during the war and the horror of the Nazi occupation which deprives her of her son, her husband and her home ...

Cast

Rimma Markova Rimma Vasilievna Markova (; 3 March 1925 – 15 January 2015) was a Russian film actress. She was named a People's Artist of Russia in 1994, whereas her younger brother Leonid Markov was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1985. During her ...

as Nadezhda Petrovna * Nina Sazonova as Anna Sergeevna * Alexandra Dorokhin as Marina, wife of Jean * Svetlana Sukhovey as Dunyasha Noskova * Valentina Stolbova as Sophia, the wife of Basil * Svetlana Zhgun as Nastya *

Vitaly Solomin Vitaly Mefodievich Solomin (; 12 December 194127 May 2002) was a Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter, best remembered for playing Dr. Watson in a series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations for Soviet television. He was the younger b ...

as Kostya Lubentsov * Aleksei Krychenkov as Kolya, son of Nadezhda Petrovna * Aleksandr Grave as store manager * Fyodor Odinokov as Vasily Petrichenko * Yefim Kopelyan as

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commandant Caspar

Awards

* VKF ( All-Union Film Festival) ** 1970 — Diploma and Award for Best Actress (Rimma Markova) *

San Sebastián International Film Festival The San Sebastián International Film Festival ( SSIFF; , ) is an annual FIAPF A category film festival held in the Spain, Spanish city of Donostia, Donostia-San Sebastián in September, in the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Countr ...

** 1968 — Special Diploma for Best Actress (Rimma Markova)

References

External links

* 1967 films 1967 war films 1960s war drama films 1960s Soviet films 1960s Russian-language films Soviet war drama films Soviet World War II films Mosfilm films Films directed by Alexey Saltykov Films based on works by Yuri Nagibin Russian-language war drama films {{1960s-USSR-film-stub