Old Women (film)

In an abandoned village away from the urban bustle, electricity and radio are a few old women. Male attention, except for the tricks of Mikolka (Sergey Makarov), the local shepherd with Down syndrome , the ladies are not spoiled. And indeed the rest of the world seems to have simply forgotten about them. Only occasionally a non-paid relative from the capital will call in for the next funeral, a soldier who has gone to AWOL will go for moonshine or a tank will rush off from a nearby test site and will smash the house into pieces. Suddenly, a family of refugees from Central Asia comes to a deaf village for permanent residence (in the film they speak Uzbek , although the girl sings a children's song in Tajik , in various annotations to the film, the family is counted among Uzbeks and then as Tajiks ). Visitors start a farm and arrange their lives, which is not always like the natives of the village.

The film has a lot of foul language .

• The prize for the best debut, the special jury prize, the audience award Gennady Sidorov at the film festival of Russian films in Honfleur in 2003.
• The Silver Listapad Prize to Gennady Sidorov at the Listapad International Film Festival in Minsk in 2003.
• Grand Prix "Scythian deer" Gennady Sidorov at the International Film Festival "Youth" in Kiev in 2003.
• The prize of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , Diploma of Film Guides and Film Critics of Russia “For creative courage in creating an unusual ensemble” at the Stalker international festival of human rights films in Moscow in 2003.
• Golden Rose Grand Prix, prize for the best directorial debut, FIPRESCI prize , prize of the guild of film experts and film critics of Russia Gennady Sidorov at the Kinotavr film festival in Sochi in 2003.
• The main prize for Gennady Sidorov at the international film festival of debut films in Angers in 2004.
• Award "Nika" "For the best major female role" Valentina Berezutskaya in 2004.

• Valentina Berezutskaya - Vyokla
• Galina Smirnova
• Zoya Norkina
• Sergey Makarov - Mikolka
• Tamara Klimova
• Bronislava Zakharova
• Nikita Romanenko
• Anastasia Lyubimova
• Gennady Sidorov - Fedka

and other professional and non-professional actors