East/West
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9/1/1999Runtime
121 minsOverview
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.
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ReleasedOriginal Language
FrenchBudget
$11,500,000Revenue
$6,032,000Homepage
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A relentlessly grim portrait of a family trapped in a Soviet nightmare, where hope and desperation collide against the machinery of totalitarian control. Every decision carries the weight of life and death.
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Catherine Deneuve
Gabrielle Develay
Sandrine Bonnaire
Marie
Oleg Menshikov
Aleksei Golovin
Sergei Bodrov Jr.
Sasha Vasilyev
Tatyana Dogileva
Olga
Bohdan Stupka
Colonel Boyko
Ruben Tapiero
Seryozha, à 7 ans
Erwan Baynaud
Seryozha, à 14 ans
Grigori Manoukov
Pirogov
Meglena Karalambova
Nina Fyodorovna
Atanass Atanassov
Viktor
Tania Massalitinova
Anastasia Aleksandrovna
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