Leningrad. November (1990)
Overview
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.
Cast
Gregory Hlady
Max
Igor Kechaev
Igor
Elena Velichko
Lena
Natalya Kolyakanova
Natasha
Nikita Mikhajlovsky
Nikita
Georgiy Teykh
Max's Dad
Boris Yukhananov
Igor's Friend
Svyatoslav Zaderiy
Slava
Mikhail Dementyev
Boy
Bronislaw Velichko
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