East-West
Summary:
French director Regis Wargnier's fifth feature film is a romantic period drama which is also a tribute to the victims of a tragic Stalinist episode. In June 1946, Stalin launched a major propaganda campaign aimed at Russians who had settled in the West, offering them amnesty and an opportunity to be involved in the postwar restructuring of the USSR. Many people who believed Stalin and... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Sandrine Bonnaire - (Marie)
Oleg Menshikov - (Alexei Golovin)
Catherine Deneuve - (Gabrielle Develay)
Sergei Bodrov Jr. - (Sasha)
Ruben Tapiero - (Seryozha, age 7)
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Review:
Postwar Russia under Joseph Stalin is hell, Circle Number 9. This film descends into that Stalinist netherworld after the Soviet Union opens its Iron Curtain in 1946 to beckon natives living abroad to return to the mother country to live in peace and build a new society. But after returnees debark at Odessa, the curtain closes seamlessly, sea... Continue >>
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