USSR during the thaw and underground jazz through the eyes of a student from Paris
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.
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Anton Rival Evguenya Obraztsova Evgeniy Tkachuk Aleksandr Baluev Nina Drobysheva Natalya Tenyakova Roman Madyanov Mikhail Efremov Lucie Aron Jérémie Duvall Aleksandr Anisimov Vera Lashkova Valentina Mazunina Alena Oskina Mariya Berdinskikh Marina Kondratyeva Yelena Ryabinkina Vladimir Zaytsev Yelena Voronchikhina Oleg Novikov Ekaterina Ageeva Darya Konyzheva Varvara Shmykova Sergey Umanov Alexander Zamuraev Artyom Gaydukov Evgeny Kharitonov Sergey Afanasyev Liliya Bagirova Anastasiya Pitel Semyon Shteinberg Igor Voynarovskiy Anastasiya Shcheglova Yuliya Grishayeva Anna Neverova Aleksei Smirnov Ilya Miroshnikov Marina Barsukova Kseniya Pokrovskaya Vladimir Lukyanchikov Alla Malkova Yuliya Abramova
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