Cast 
Oleg Menshikov  ...  Aleksei Golovin (as Oleg Menchikov) 
Sandrine Bonnaire  ...  Marie, his wife 
Catherine Deneuve  ...  Gabrielle Develay 
Sergey Bodrov Jr.  ...  Sasha Vasilyev (as Sergueï Bodrov Jr) 
Ruben Tapiero  ...  Seryozha, age 7 
Erwan Baynaud  ...  Seryozha, age 14 
Grigori Manoukov  ...  Pirogov 
Tatyana Dogileva  ...  Olga (as Tatiana Doguileva) 

Genre:  Drama | History | Romance

Runtime: 121 min`s

Sound: Russian with russian sub`s, French

Subtitles:  Russian

Region - 5 (Russia) PAL

June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step. By chance, she meets a touring French actress and pleads for help. She also takes a young swimmer under her wing, and several years later, he makes a bold attempt to escape. Meanwhile, the KGB is suspicious, and hope for freedom is dim. Patience, her husband's self control, and her good looks may be their only assets.