East/West
Est - Ouest
1999, Film, 121 min, Adventure, Drama, History, French, France, MoviePedia score 67
An unforgettable story of love, betrayal and survival.
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step.
Directed by Régis Wargnier
Cast
- Oleg Menshikov as Aleksei Golovin
- Sandrine Bonnaire as Marie, his wife
- Catherine Deneuve as Gabrielle Develay
- Sergey Bodrov as Sasha Vasilyev
- Ruben Tapiero as Seryozha, age 7
- Erwan Baynaud as Seryozha, age 14
- Grigori Manoukov as Pirogov
- Tatyana Dogileva as Olga
- Bogdan Stupka as Colonel Boyko
- Meglena Karalambova as Nina Fyodorovna
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