East/West
Est - Ouest
An unforgettable story of love, betrayal and survival.
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.
Direction
Cast
Oleg Menshikov
Aleksei Golovin
Sandrine Bonnaire
Marie, his wife
Catherine Deneuve
Gabrielle Develay
Sergey Bodrov
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
Tatyana Dogileva
Olga
Bogdan Stupka
Colonel Boyko
Meglena Karalambova
Nina Fyodorovna
Patrick Doyle
Composer
Laurent Dailland
Cinematographer
