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Leningrad. November (1990)

Leningrad. November (1990)

Drama
Release Date: 1990, November 8
Directors: Oleg Morozov, Andreas Christoph Schmidt
Countries: Germany, Soviet Union
Production: Lenfilm, Lenfilm, Neue Prometheus, Neue Prometheus
Cast: Gregory Hlady, Georgiy Teykh, Mikhail Dementyev, Cristin König, Natalya Kolyakanova, Svyatoslav Zaderiy, Elena Velichko, Nikita Mikhajlovsky, Alexey Kanunnikov, Alexander Donskikh von Romanov, Nina Niss-Goldman

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.