| Women's Property | |
| Director: | Dmitry Meskhiev |
| Starring: | Konstantin Khabensky Elena Safonova |
| Music: | Ivan Nikolayevich Smirnov Mikhail Smirnov |
| Cinematography: | Yuri Shaigardanov |
| Producer: | Yelena Yatsura |
| Studio: | Mosfilm |
| Runtime: | 89 minutes |
| Country: | Russia |
| Language: | Russian |
Women's Property (Russian: Женская собственность|Zhenskaya sobstvennost) is a Russian 1999 romantic drama based on the eponymous story by Valentin Chernykh, directed by Dmitry Meskhiev.[1]
A young entrant, Andrei Kalinin, passes exams to a theatrical institute. He lacks artistic acumen yet has plenty of charm. After getting to know that there are chances he won't succeed, he decides to convince a member of the committee, Elizaveta Kamenskaya, that he has to enroll exactly that very year. In a sequence of chance events, Andrey falls for her - the prominent actress he used to admire being a child. She is much older than him and lonely. After a few years of relationships, it turns out that she has cancer. Despite her incurable illness, Andrei marries Elizaveta. After her death, his professional life becomes unstable - while his romantic affairs are taking even more unpredictable turns.