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Vassa (1983)

Vassa (1983)

Drama
Release Date: 1983, September 12
Directors: Gleb Panfilov
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Lenfilm
Cast: Valentina Yakunina, Olga Mashnaya, Valentina Telichkina, Inna Churikova, Albert Filozov, Tatyana Kravchenko, Vsevolod Sobolev, Vyacheslav Bogachyov, Tatyana Stepanova, Yana Poplavskaya, Leonid Pleshakov, Nikolai Skorobogatov

Overview:

Screen adaptation of the play by Maxim Gorky "Vassa Zheleznova". Saga of the death of a merchant family. For many years, Vassa Zheleznova has been leading the family business and, despite the inconspicuous children, her dissolute husband, alcoholic brother, and revolutionary daughter-in-law, is trying to maintain at least the appearance of a normal family... 1913 is coming, and everything that was dedicated to her life is wrecked.

Keywords:

based on play or musical class differences wealthy dysfunctional family matriarch rich family leech aristocracy