Released:
1990-11-08

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.

Directors:
Oleg Morozov, Andreas Christoph Schmidt

Runtime:
1h 26min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Gregory Hlady
  as
  Max
• 
  Igor Kechaev
  as
  Igor
• 
  Elena Velichko
  as
  Lena
• 
  Natalya Kolyakanova
  as
  Natasha
• 
  Cristin König
  as
  Erika