The Frenchman (2019)
USSR during the thaw and underground jazz through the eyes of a student from Paris
2019 · 2h 8m · History, Drama
Genres: History, Drama
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.
Director: Andrey Smirnov
Writers: Andrey Smirnov
Cinematography: Yuriy Shaygardanov
Editor: Alla Strelnikova
Cast
Anton Rival as PierreEvguenya Obraztsova as KiraEvgeniy Tkachuk as UspenskiyAleksandr Baluev as TatishchevNina Drobysheva as Olga KirillovnaNatalya Tenyakova as Mariya KirillovnaRoman Madyanov as ChukhnovskiyMikhail Efremov as Uspenskiy's fatherLucie Aron as NicoleJérémie Duvall as Jean-MarieVera Lashkova as Anna FyodorovnaValentina Mazunina as woman, meeting Pierre at the airportMore like this
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