
Wife to Be 2024
Overview
The film focuses on women from a family living in southern Russia: two sisters, their mother, and grandmother. Every summer, the younger women visit the elders, returning to their roots and embracing a traditional way of life. This household is deeply matriarchal—men are present but play secondary roles. The film’s space is filled with rituals: fortune-telling, herb gathering, and bathing. Here, the sacred is intertwined with the mundane. The daughters follow the life paths of their mother, who
Director: Inna Omelchenko
Cast
Tatyana Yurshevskaya
Anna Nikitina
Viktoria Nikitina
Elena Nikitina