Film-Play "Assemblywomen"
A television version of the A. V. Lunacharsky Sevastopol Academic Russian Drama Theater's production of Aristophanes's play.
The ancient comedian surely didn't expect his work to become so relevant today. After all, he wrote his comedy about the reorganization of Athenian democracy after the Peloponnesian Wars in 391 or 390 BC. In Greek, this comedy is called "Ecclesiazusae" and addresses the "women's question" in government. After men fail in domestic and foreign policy, women decide to take the reins of power, which they successfully implement. They establish their own order—community of property, a "fair" distribution of sexual resources... and reap the fruits of their errors.
Director of the film-performance: Eduard Palmov