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.

Top Cast

Gregory Hlady

Max

Igor Kechaev

Igor

Elena Velichko

Lena

Natalya Kolyakanova

Natasha

C

Cristin König

Erika

Nikita Mikhajlovsky

Nikita

G

Gennadi Mitrofanov

Georgiy Teykh

Max's Dad

Boris Yukhananov

Igor's Friend

Svyatoslav Zaderiy

Slava

Mikhail Dementyev

Boy

A

Alexey Bogorad