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The Frenchman

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. During his year in Russia’s capital Pierre lives an entirely different life than what he’s used to. But the internship and the experience of the Soviet people’s way of life are not the only things Pierre is after. He’s searching for his father, White officer Tatishchev, who was arrested in the 1930s.

2019 |2h 8m |  History, Drama

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Cast

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Anton Rival

Pierre

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Evguenya Obraztsova

Kira

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Evgeniy Tkachuk

Uspenskiy

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Aleksandr Baluev

Tatishchev

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Nina Drobysheva

Olga Kirillovna

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Natalya Tenyakova

Mariya Kirillovna

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Roman Madyanov

Chukhnovskiy

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Mikhail Efremov

Uspenskiy's father

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Lucie Aron

Nicole

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Jérémie Duvall

Jean-Marie

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Valentina Mazunina

woman, meeting Pierre at the airport

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Mariya Berdinskikh

Chukhnovskiy's daughter

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Marina Kondratyeva

ballet teacher-tutor

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Vladimir Zaytsev

Vasiliy

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Yelena Voronchikhina

commandant of the dorm

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Oleg Novikov

Krivoruchko

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Ekaterina Ageeva

Tamara

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Darya Konyzheva

girl at a house party

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Varvara Shmykova

girl at a house party

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Sergey Umanov

KGB's curator

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Alexander Zamuraev

alcoholic in ushanka

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Artyom Gaydukov

district militia officer

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Evgeny Kharitonov

Oskar

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Liliya Bagirova

Volodya's wife

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Semen Shteinberg

Zabolotskiy

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Igor Voynarovskiy

Samoshkin

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Anastasiya Shcheglova

Samoshkin's wife

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Yuliya Grishayeva

Alina

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Anna Viller

Marusya

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Ilya Miroshnikov

George

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Marina Barsukova

Zhanna

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Vladimir Lukyanchikov

security guard

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Alla Malkova

woman at the bread factory

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Yuliya Abramova

Obrezkovs neighbour

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Aleksandr Anisimov

Ustyugov

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Language

Russian

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