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After a ten year long stay in West Germany, Max returns to the Soviet Union to visit his deadly ill father in Leningrad. There he finds a friend in a man who calls himself Igor and he begins a love-affair with the deafmute Lena. Around Max' relationship to his father, Igor and Lena, losely held episodes give a many fasetted portrait of Leningrad and its inhabitants. In the eyes of the returning Max, the city is at once well-known and foreign. Lyrically saturated images and sophisticated editing contributes to making the film an expressive description of a changing city.Read moreLess
After a ten year long stay in West Germany, Max returns to the Soviet Union to visit his deadly ill father in Leningrad. There he finds a friend in a man who calls himself Igor and he begins a love-affair with the deafmute Lena. Around Max' relationship to his father, Igor and Lena, losely held episodes give a many fasetted portrait of Leningrad and its inhabitants. In the eyes of the returning Max, the city is at once well-known and foreign. Lyrically saturated images and sophisticated editing contributes to making the film an expressive description of a changing city.
The story
After a ten year long stay in West Germany, Max returns to the Soviet Union to visit his deadly ill father in Leningrad. There he finds a friend in a man who calls himself Igor and he begins a love-affair with the deafmute Lena. Around Max' relationship to his father, Igor and Lena, losely held episodes give a many fasetted portrait of Leningrad and its inhabitants. In the eyes of the returning Max, the city is at once well-known and foreign. Lyrically saturated images and sophisticated editing contributes to making the film an expressive description of a changing city.
Cast & crew
Gregory Hlady
Igor KechaevIgor
Elena VelichkoLena
Natalya KolyakanovaNatasha
Nikita MikhajlovskyNikita
Georgiy TeykhMax's Dad
Boris YukhananovIgor's Friend
Svyatoslav ZaderiySlava
Mikhail DementyevExplore the crew
- Writer
- Renata Litvinova
- Producer
- Martin Hagemann
- Producer
- Alexandr Golutva
- Director
- Oleg Morozov
- Director
- Andreas Christoph Schmidt
- Writer
- Oleg Morozov
- Director of Photography
- Oleg Morozov