Film: East West

East-West (1999) (original sound, English subtitles) (1/8).

June 1946: Stalin launches a vast propaganda campaign aimed at Russian emigrants living in the West, offering them an amnesty, a Soviet passport and the chance to participate in the post-war reconstruction of the USSR. Alexei Golovine, an emigrant living in France responds to this appeal along with many others. He decides to return to the mother country which he has missed so deeply, taking his young French wife, Marie, and his son Serioja, with him.
On arrival in Odessa, Stalin's welcome is not what they had expected. Many of their travelling companions are executed on the spot or sent to forced labor camps. Alexei and his family escape this fate and are sent to Kiev simply because the Soviet authorities realise that they have much to gain from this young doctor. He will be paraded as an example, a model "returnee". This is the price Alexei has to pay to save Marie and Serioja.

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Crew:
Directed by Rugis Wargnier
Produced by Yves Marmion
Written by Rustam Ibragimbekov, Sergei Bodrov, Rugis Wargnier
Original Music by Patrick Doyle
Cinematography by Laurent Dailland
Production Design by Aleksei Levchenko, Vladimir Svetozarov

Cast:
Marie - Sandrine Bonnaire
Alexei - Oleg Menchikov
Gabrielle - Catherine Deneuve
Sacha - Serguei Bodrov Jr.
Serioja (at 7 years) - Ruben Tapiero
Serioja (at 14 years) - Erwan Baynaud
Pirogov - Grigori Manoukov
Olga - Tatiana Doguileva
Colonel Boiko - Bogdan Stupka
Nina Fiodorovna - Meglena Karalambova
and others.

© France, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Spain. 1999.

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