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. By chance, she meets a touring French actress and pleads for help. She also takes a young swimmer under her wing, and several years later, he makes a bold attempt to escape. Meanwhile, the KGB is suspicious, and hope for freedom is dim. Patience, her husband’s self control, and her good looks may be their only assets.
Release Date: 5 May 2000Runtime: 121 min
Stars:
- Atanass Atanassov
- Bogdan Stupka
- Catherine Deneuve
- Erwan Baynaud
- Grigori Manoukov
- Meglena Karalambova
- Nikolai Binev
- Oleg Menshikov
- René Féret
- Ruben Tapiero
- Sandrine Bonnaire
- Sergey Bodrov Jr.
- Tania Massalitinova
- Tatyana Dogileva
- Valentin Ganev
Director: Régis Wargnier
