East/West
East/West (; ) is a 1999 drama film directed by Régis Wargnier, starring Sandrine Bonnaire, Oleg Menshikov, Catherine Deneuve and Sergei Bodrov Jr. It received generally positive reviews from critics. The film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 72nd Academy Awards.
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6.5June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step.
Released: 1999-09-01121 minDir: Régis WargnierDrama, Romance
Cast
- Catherine Deneuve as Gabrielle Develay
- Sandrine Bonnaire as Marie
- Oleg Menshikov as Aleksei Golovin
- Sergei Bodrov Jr. as Sasha Vasilyev
- Tatyana Dogileva as Olga
- Bohdan Stupka as Colonel Boyko
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Ratings
IMDb
7.4/10
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8 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Cast
- Reception
- Critical response
- Awards
- See also
- References
- External links
East/West (; ) is a 1999 drama film directed by Régis Wargnier, starring Sandrine Bonnaire, Oleg Menshikov, Catherine Deneuve and Sergei Bodrov Jr. It received generally positive reviews from critics. The film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 72nd Academy Awards.
==Plot== In 1946, Stalin invites all White Russian émigrés, who had fled to the West after the Bolshevik Russian Revolution of 1917, to return to the USSR to help rebuild the devastated motherland in the aftermath of the Second World War and offers them citizenship. Among a group of French émigrés is the doctor Alexei Golovin (Menshikov), who believes in Stalin's promises of a peaceful new beginning, his French wife Marie (Bonnaire), and their young son Serjoscha. The atmosphere on the ship taking them to Russia is jovial, with drinking and singing. But as soon as they dock in Odessa, it is clear that Stalin was using his promises as an excuse to murder the exiles or have them put in Gulags. Once ashore, the Soviet authorities separate the returning émigrés into two groups, 'fit' and 'unfit'. A young man is shot trying to run back to his father from whom he is separated, and the Golovins begin to understand the situation they have landed in.