Heroines of Ostrovsky's Plays

The film is dedicated to the heroines of Ostrovsky’s plays—wives, cooks, actresses, matchmakers. For the most part, these are composite characters, but many of them have real-life prototypes. The author was a keen observer and recorded everything interesting in his diary. This is how the gallery of images from his native Zamoskvorechye, where Ostrovsky was born, came into being. Later, after traveling along the Volga, portraits of residents from small towns along the river were added. Alexander Nikolaevich never overlooked the details. When the playwright described daily life, the details of clothing, or the manner of speaking of a character, the hero would literally come to life.

• Andrey TorstensenDirector
• Iya SavvinaWriter

• Iya Savvinaведущая / Кручинина
• Lidiya SavchenkoДомна Пантелевна / Павла Петровна Бальзаминова / Фелисата Герасимовна Кукушкина / Маланья / Улита
• Alla PokrovskayaДомна Евстигневна Миначева / Татьяна Никоновна
• Natalya TenyakovaФетинья Мироновна Епишкина / Акулина Гавриловна Красавина / Марфа Игнатьевна Кабанова / Пульхерия Андревна Гущина
• Lyubov StrizhenovaМатрёна Савишна Пузатова / Вера Филипповна / Антонина Власьевна Бедонегова
• Raisa MaksimovaАграфена Кондратьевна Большова / Феона / Раиса Павловна Гурмыжская
• Marina BrusnikinaОльга Дмитриевна / Домна Евстигневна Белотелова
• Natalya MolokinaОлинька
• Vera SotnikovaМарья Антиповна / Юлинька, дочь Кукушкиной
• Elena Zemlyanikina-KrylatovaНастя
• Yanina LisovskayaЛипочка
• Irina GolitsynaЛидия Чебоксарова