Set in the 1950s Soviet Union, centers on a young artist who is commissioned to create Stalin's monument and must go through KGB scrutiny.
Credited cast: | |||
Gérard Depardieu | ... | Joseph Staline | |
Emmanuelle Seigner | ... | Lidia | |
Paul Hamy | ... | Oleg Iakoblevitch Danilov | |
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François Chattot | ... | Le général Nikolaï Vlassik |
Tudor Istodor | ... | Le capitaine Dovitkine | |
Xavier Maly | ... | Poskrebichev | |
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Luna Picoli-Truffaut | ... | Varvara |
Alexis Manenti | ... | Tchirikov | |
Miguel Monteiro | ... | L'homme aux gants | |
Lídia Franco | ... | Rumichvili | |
Joana de Verona | ... | Olga | |
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Philippe Leroux | ... | Le capitaine du MGB |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Marta Barahona Abreu | ... | Une domestique |
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João Cunha | ... | Un soldat |
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Mónica Ferreira | ... | Une domestique |
Set in the 1950s Soviet Union, centers on a young artist who is commissioned to create Stalin's monument and must go through KGB scrutiny.
The setting and directing of the movie is horrible. There is nothing russian to the atmosphere: the actors are speaking french all the way, no russian background music, no footage in Moscow, the actors were not behaving like russians. At the very least they could have shown some communist monuments or at least try to re-create the athmosphere like other movies like "The Americans" did.
I want my two hours of my life back. It's that bad.