TV series

Once There Was a Woman

2015 · 1 season

A slow, sorrowful immersion into hardship and history, demanding patience but rewarding it with raw emotional weight.

Overview: The painful fate of a woman and a country. A TV version of Andrei Smirnov's tragic epic about a Tambov peasant woman.
How it feels: Bleak, melancholic, earnest and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: War, survival, grief, family
Content: Strong violence. Mild gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 3 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: war
survival
grief
family
class
Places: countryside
small town
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild