Two Women

Based on I. Turgenev’s play “A Month in the Country”.

At the heart of the play lies the love quadrangle. Natalya Petrovna, the wife of the rich landowner Arkady Sergeich Islaev, falls in love with Alexey Nikolayevich Belyaev – a student, teacher Kolya Islaeva.

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Rakitin – a friend of the family, has long loved Natalya Petrovna. Verochka – a pupil of Natalya Petrovna also falls in love with Kolya’s teacher. Belyaev and Rakitin eventually leave the estate …

Production: Russia, 2014
Duration: 100 min.
Director: Vera Glagoleva
Cast: Anna Vartanyan,  Ralph Fiennes, Aleksandr Baluev, Silvie Testud (France), Nikita Volkov, Ann Levanova, Berndt Moss (Germany), Larisa Malevannaya, Sergey Ushkevich, Vasiliy Mischenko, Ann Nahapetova, Roman Drobot, Andrey Zanoga

Content type: Films

Festival awards:

 

  • Golden Phoenix, Smolensk
    • Grand Prix “Diamond Phoenix” to the director Vera Glagoleva
    • Special prize named after Mikhail Glinka to Sergei Banevich, the composer of the film
    • Special prize named after philanthropist Mary Tenisheva to the producer Natalia Ivanova
  • Amur autumn. Film and Theatre Festival , Blagoveshchensk
    • Grand Prix them. Valeria Priemyhova for Best Film
    • Best Cinematography (Gints Berzins)
  • “Pacific Meridian”, Vladivostok – Anna Levanova
    • Special Jury Prize “Star” for the role of Vera
  • The First Russian Film Festival in Monaco
    • prize “For contribution to the development and promotion of Russian culture and art” to Vera Glagoleva
    • Audience Award to the film.
  • 2- Russian Film Festival in Nice
    • Special prize “For contribution to the development of Russian cinema and promoting Russian culture abroad” (Vera Glagoleva)
  • 3 – International Festival Hanoi
    • Grand Prix Festival (director Vera Glagoleva)
    • Best Actress (Anna Astrakhantseva)
  • 21 – Russian Film Festival “Literature and Cinema” in Gatchina
    • Best director (Vera Glagoleva)
    • Best composer (Sergei Banevich)
    • Best Actor (Ralph Fiennes)
    • Best Actress (Anna Vartanyan)
  • Film festival “Fathers and Sons” Orel, 2015
    • Grand Prix (best film)
  • Inretnational Festival in Cheboksary
    • Audience Award to the film
  • Russian Film Festival «Viva Cinema Russia»
    • Best Actor (Aexander Baluev)
    • Audience Award to the film
  • International Festival «Zolotoy vityaz»
    • Grand Prix (best film)
  • 3 Tehran Jasmine International Film Festival:
    • The Golden Jasmine for best screenwriting (Svetlana Grudovich and Olga Pogodina-Kuzmina)
    • The Golden Jasmine for best cinematographer (Gints Berzins)
  • XII international charitable film festival “Radiant angel”
    • Second prize to the film

 

Premiers & Screenings:

  • IFF in Chichester (UK) – Galapremiere
  • 26 Triest International Film festival – Gala premiere
  • Let’s Cee Film Festival in Austria (Vienna) – a special screening of the film “Two women”
  • Jagran IFF (India)New Delhi & Mumbai – a special screening of the film “Two women”
  • Film festival in Tbilisi (Georgia) – the opening of the film
  • Days of Russian cinema” Prague (Czech Republic) – a special screening of the film “Two women”
  • International festival “Love like crazy”, Varna (Bulgaria) – Gala premiere