Window to Paris

Name: Window to Paris
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Comedy
Released: 1993-10-01
Duration: 112 min
Cast: Andrey Urgant, Malka Ribowska, Vyacheslav Vasilyev, Vladimir Sevostyanikhin, Agnès Soral

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Release Date

10/1/1993

Runtime

112 mins

Genres

Drama Fantasy Comedy

Overview

Nikolai (played by Sergei Dontsov) has been fired from his job as a music teacher and has to live in the gym until he finds a place to stay. Finally, he gets a communal room in the apartment of Gorokhov (Victor Mikhalkov). The room's previous inhabitant, an old lady, has died a year ago, and yet her cat, Maxi, is still in the locked room, healthy and fat. Soon, Nikolai and his neighbours discover the mystery: there is a window to Paris in the room. That's when the comedy begins - will the Russians be able to cope with the temptation to profit from the discovery?

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Original Language

Russian

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A Russian fairy tale about ordinary people discovering an impossible door to Paris, blending magical whimsy with wry observations about desire, community, and the gap between dreams and reality. It's simultaneously funny and melancholic, asking what we'd really do with a chance to escape.