A Frenchman
“USSR during the thaw and underground jazz through the eyes of a student from Paris”
Synopsis
In 1957 French student Pierre Durand comes to Moscow to do an internship at Moscow State University. Here he meets ballerina Kira Galkina and photographer Valera Uspenskiy. With them he discovers the cultural side of Moscow — not just the traditional one, but the underground one as well. During his year in Russia’s capital Pierre lives an entirely different life than what he’s used to. But the internship and the experience of the Soviet people’s way of life are not the only things Pierre is after. He’s searching for his father, White officer Tatishchev, who was arrested in the 1930s.
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Edited by Alla StrelnikovaShot by Yuriy ShaygardanovDesigned by Vladimir Gudilin
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18 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Anton Rival
as Pierre Durand
Evguenya Obraztsova
as Kira Galkina
Evgeniy Tkachuk
as Valeriy Uspenskiy
Aleksandr Baluev
as Tatishev
Natalya Tenyakova
as Maria Obrezkova
Nina Drobysheva
as Olga Obrezkova
Roman Madyanov
as Chuhnovskiy
Mikhail Efremov
as Valery Uspenskiy's dad
Yuliya Abramova
as Obrezkovs Neighbour
Sergey Afanasyev
as Volodya
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