East/West

East/West

121 mins | Drama, Romance | Sept. 1, 1999

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.

East/West

121 mins | Drama, Romance | Sept. 1, 1999

East/West
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.
IMDb rating 7.4
Producers France 3 Cinéma, UGC YM, NTV-Profit
Original title Est-Ouest
Directors Régis Wargnier
Writers Sergei Bodrov, Rustam Ibragimbekov, Louis Gardel, Régis Wargnier

Cast

Catherine Deneuve

as Gabrielle Develay

Oleg Menshikov

as Aleksei Golovin

Sergei Bodrov Jr.

as Sasha Vasilyev

Bogdan Stupka

as Colonel Boyko

Ruben Tapiero

as Seryozha, à 7 ans

Erwan Baynaud

as Seryozha, à 14 ans

Grigori Manoukov

as Pirogov

Meglena Karalambova

as Nina Fyodorovna

Atanass Atanassov

as Viktor

Tania Massalitinova

as Anastasia Aleksandrovna

Valentin Ganev

as Volodya Petrov

Nikolai Binev

as Sergei Kozlov

René Féret

as Ambassadeur de France

Hubert Saint-Macary

as Le conseiller de l'ambassadeur

Jauris Casanova

as Fabiani

Joël Chapron

as L'acteur de théatre

François Caron

as Policier surveillance, Paris

Marie Verdi

as Habilleuse

Ivan Savov

as Moyta Petrov

Aleksandr Stolyarchuk

as Cadet Petrov

Daniel Martin

as Le capitaine turc

Malin Krastev

as drunk man

Ivan Petrov

as handicapped

Mac Marinov

as third kid in the communal flat

Aleksey Vertinskiy

as first policeman

Petro Panchuk

as Father Georgiy

Kalin Yavorov

as Leonid Kozlov

Banko Bankov

as investigator

Plamen Manassiev

as second officer

Maxim Genchev

as mayor of Kiev

Emil Markov

as Caucasian

Valentin Tanev

as policeman