East-West (Est-Ouest)
1999·France·110 min.
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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.
DirectorRégis Wargnier
MusicPatrick Doyle
CinematographyLaurent Dailland
CastSandrine Bonnaire·Oleg Menshikov·Catherine Deneuve·Sergei Bodrov Jr.·Grigori Manoukov·Tatyana Dogileva·Bogdan Stupka·Hubert SaintMacary·Atanass Atanassov·Erwan Baynaud
Original titleEst-Ouest