To See Paris and Die (1992)
In Russia in the late 1960s, Elena will do anything to see that her son Yuri succeeds as a pianist: she longs for him to win a competition that will send him to Paris. To ensure his success, she denies her love for an iconoclastic painter for whom she models, prostitutes herself to a Party figure, encourages her son to break with his true love because the girl is a Jew, and, in general, behaves in paranoid ways, believing, for example, that a new lodger, Evgeny, is a KGB spy. She also has her own family secrets, which she will go to any length to keep her son from learning.
Director: Aleksandr Proshkin
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Dmitriy Malikov as Yuri |
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Tatyana Vasileva as Elena |
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Vladimir Steklov as |
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Stanislav Lyubshin as |
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Ekaterina Semenova as |
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Oksana Arbuzova as |
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Nina Usatova as |
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Viktor Stepanov as |
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Nikolai Stambula as |
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Yelena Fadeyeva as |
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Nikolay Chindyaykin as |
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Marina Gayzidorskaya as |
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Maria Faddeeva as |
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Aleksandr Androsov as |
| Directing | Aleksandr Proshkin | Director |
| Writing | Georgi Branev | Writer |
| Sound | Roman Ledenyov | Music |
| Production | Mikhail Litvak | Producer |
| Camera | Boris Brozhovsky | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Yelena Mikhaylova | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Alina Budnikova | Costume Design |
| Production | Rustam Ibragimbekov | Producer |