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Ratings: 7.2/10 from 2,927 users
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Reviews: 50 user | 44 critic | 27 from Metacritic.com June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa... See full summary » Director:Régis Wargnier |
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Oleg Menshikov | ... |
Aleksei Golovin
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| Sandrine Bonnaire | ... |
Marie, his wife
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Gabrielle Develay
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Sergey Bodrov Jr. | ... |
Sasha Vasilyev
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Ruben Tapiero | ... |
Seryozha, age 7
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Erwan Baynaud | ... |
Seryozha, age 14
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Grigori Manoukov | ... |
Pirogov
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Tatyana Dogileva | ... |
Olga
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Colonel Boyko
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Meglena Karalambova | ... |
Nina Fyodorovna
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Atanass Atanassov | ... |
Viktor
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Tania Massalitinova | ... |
Anastasia Aleksandrovna
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Volodya Petrov
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Nikolai Binev | ... |
Sergei Kozlov
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René Féret | ... |
Ambassadeur de France
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Storyline
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. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Восток-Запад See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$56,147 (USA) (9 April 2000) (8 Screens)Gross:
$2,775,520 (USA) (1 October 2000)Company Credits
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The two main Russian actors (Oleg Menshikov and Sergey Bodrov Jr.) do not speak French. They memorized all the lines phonetically. See more »Goofs
Errors in geography: When Marie goes to the KGB building in Kiev and Alexei finds her there, persuading her to leave, the viewer can read a sign on the building that says, in Cyrillic letters, "Ministerstvo na..." This is a Bulgarian genitive construction, meaning "The Ministry of..." The only Slavic languages that show the genitive case in this fashion are Bulgarian and Macedonian. The genitive case is marked differently in Russian and Ukrainian, which shows that the "KGB" building could not actually have been in Kiev. This makes sense because the film was partially shot in Bulgaria. See more »
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