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In Russia in the late 1960s, Elena will do anything to see that her son Yuri succeeds as a pianist: she longs for him to win a competition that will send him to Paris. To ensure his success, she denies her love for an iconoclastic painter for whom she models, prostitutes herself to a Party figure, encourages her son to break with his true love because the girl is a Jew, and, in general, behaves in paranoid ways, believing, for example, that a new lodger, Evgeny, is a KGB spy. She also has her own family secrets, which she will go to any length to keep her son from learning.Read moreLess
In Russia in the late 1960s, Elena will do anything to see that her son Yuri succeeds as a pianist: she longs for him to win a competition that will send him to Paris. To ensure his success, she denies her love for an iconoclastic painter for whom she models, prostitutes herself to a Party figure, encourages her son to break with his true love because the girl is a Jew, and, in general, behaves in paranoid ways, believing, for example, that a new lodger, Evgeny, is a KGB spy. She also has her own family secrets, which she will go to any length to keep her son from learning.
The story
In Russia in the late 1960s, Elena will do anything to see that her son Yuri succeeds as a pianist: she longs for him to win a competition that will send him to Paris. To ensure his success, she denies her love for an iconoclastic painter for whom she models, prostitutes herself to a Party figure, encourages her son to break with his true love because the girl is a Jew, and, in general, behaves in paranoid ways, believing, for example, that a new lodger, Evgeny, is a KGB spy. She also has her own family secrets, which she will go to any length to keep her son from learning.
Cast & crew
Dmitriy MalikovYuri
Tatyana VasilevaElena
Vladimir SteklovCast
Stanislav Lyubshin
Ekaterina Semenova
Oksana ArbuzovaCast
Nina UsatovaCast
Viktor StepanovCast
Nikolai StambulaCast
Yelena FadeyevaCast
Nikolay Chindyaykin
Marina GayzidorskayaExplore the crew
- Writer
- Georgi Branev
- Director
- Aleksandr Proshkin
- Director of Photography
- Boris Brozhovsky
- Editor
- Yelena Mikhaylova
- Producer
- Mikhail Litvak
- Producer
- Rustam Ibragimbekov