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Leningrad. November

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.

1990 |1h 26m |  Drama

Cast

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Gregory Hlady

Max

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Elena Velichko

Lena

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Natalya Kolyakanova

Natasha

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Nikita Mikhajlovsky

Nikita

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Georgiy Teykh

Max’s dad

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Svyatoslav Zaderiy

Slava

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Mikhail Dementyev

Boy

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Bronislaw Velichko

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Status

Released

Language

Russian

Budget

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Revenue

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