Ivan SOLOVOV
Иван СОЛОВОВ
Ivan SOLOVOV
Russia, 2008, full length film 
Colour, fiction
The Elder Wife
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Старшая жена

 

 La Première femme

 Starshaya zhena

 
Directed by : Ivan SOLOVOV (Иван СОЛОВОВ)
Writing credits : Zoya KUDRIA (Зоя КУДРЯ)
 
Cast
Aleksandr BASHIROV (Александр БАШИРОВ) ...Kolkhos-han
Aleksandr DOMOGAROV (Александр ДОМОГАРОВ) ...Max
Andrey PANIN (Андрей ПАНИН) ...Sjezd
Irina ROZANOVA (Ирина РОЗАНОВА)
Lidia VELEZHEVA (Лидия ВЕЛЕЖЕВА) ...Oksana
 
Cinematography : Vladimir KLIMOV (Владимир КЛИМОВ)
Production design : Aleksandr KIM (Александр КИМ)
Produced by : Ivan SOLOVOV (Иван СОЛОВОВ)
Production : Mentor Cinema
Release date in Russia : 2008
 
format : 35 mm
Site : www.mentor-cinema.ru/85str.shtml

Plot synopsis
Baira and Syezd are an inseparable couple of Kalmyk peasants who tend farm, raise sheep and cannot think of any other life Until, fulfilling a promise he made to a dying neighbour, Syezd brings home a new wife. The new wife is a young beauty, moreover she is pregnant. Feelin superfluous, Baira leaves the native aul and goes to the city, she plots revenge
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Ivan Solovov : The Elder Wife (Starshaia zhena, 2008), Andrey KHRENOV, kinokultura.com, 2010
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2010
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2008

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