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From the director of Academy Award(r)-winning INDOCHINE comes another highly acclaimed film. Academy Award(r)-nominated (1999) for Best Foreign Language Film, EAST/WEST (EST/OUEST) is a wonderfully imagined film that follows the plight of a young couple and their child as they choose to go back to the Soviet Union in 1946. At the end of the war, Stalin invited Russians who fled the country to return.The talented young doctor, Alexei Golovine (Oleg Menchikov), accompanied by his French bride, the beautiful Marie (Sandrine Bonnaire), and their son optimistically return to the Soviet Union. Their arrival is a rude one. Interrogations are followed by the grim reality of post-war Soviet Union: shared apartments, suspicious neighbors and lack of privacy. Marie soon starts to rebel against the circumstances, but her husband finds that his talents are needed and appreciated by the authorities so he starts to get ahead. Marie meets up with a touring French actress (Catherine Deneuve), and soon faces a terrifying choice: to leave her husband and child for freedom or stay and confront a grim future.
Original Release
09/01/1999
US Release
05/05/2000
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Oleg Menshikov | Aleksei Golovin |
Sandrine Bonnaire | Marie, his wife / Marie |
Catherine Deneuve | Gabrielle Develay |
Sergey Bodrov | Sasha Vasilyev |
Ruben Tapiero | Seryozha, age 7 / Seryozha, à 7 ans |
Erwan Baynaud | Seryozha, age 14 / Seryozha, à 14 ans |
Grigori Manoukov | Pirogov |
Tatyana Dogileva | Olga |
Bogdan Stupka | Colonel Boyko |
Meglena Karalambova | Nina Fyodorovna |
Directors
Writers
Regis Wargnier, Rustam Ibragimbekov, Louis Gardel, Sergei Bodrov
Cast
Name | Character |
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Oleg Menshikov | Aleksei Golovin |
Sandrine Bonnaire | Marie, his wife / Marie |
Catherine Deneuve | Gabrielle Develay |
Sergey Bodrov | Sasha Vasilyev |
Ruben Tapiero | Seryozha, age 7 / Seryozha, à 7 ans |
Erwan Baynaud | Seryozha, age 14 / Seryozha, à 14 ans |
Grigori Manoukov | Pirogov |
Tatyana Dogileva | Olga |
Bogdan Stupka | Colonel Boyko |
Meglena Karalambova | Nina Fyodorovna |
Atanass Atanassov | Viktor |
Tania Massalitinova | Anastasia Aleksandrovna |
Valentin Ganev | Volodya Petrov |
Nikolai Binev | Sergei Kozlov |
René Feret | Ambassadeur de France |
Hubert Saint-Macary | Embassy Advisor / Le conseiller de l'ambassadeur |
Jauris Casanova | Fabiani |
Joël Chapron | Theatre Interpreter / L'acteur de théatre |
François Caron | Policier surveillance, Paris |
Marie Verdi | Habilleuse |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Stephan Kyrilov | Executive Producer |
Patrick Sandrin | Executive Producer |
Alexander Rodnyansky | Executive Producer |
Evgeniy Gindilis | Executive Producer |
Kiril Kirilov | Producer |
Yves Marmion | Producer |
Stephane Sorlat | Producer |
Igor Tolstunov | Producer |
Galina Toneva | Producer |
Evgeniy Gindilis | Producer |
Alexander Rodnyansky | Producer |
Patrick Sandrin | Producer |
Mate Cantero | Producer |
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Trailers
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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2000 | Golden Globe | Best Foreign Language Film | Nominated |
2000 | Oscar | Best Foreign Language Film | Nominated |