Released:
2004-03-17

Overview:
The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying. The brilliant exile, Fiodor Voronin, a general at 20, is the deputy at the White Russian Military Union, probably slated to replace the aging Général Dobrinsky soon. Fiodor's Greek wife, Arsinoé, paints and stays away from politics, befriending Communist neighbors. Her health declines; the attentive Fiodor arranges care and, against the backdrop of Stalin's Great Purge, considers his options. He plays a chess game in which love of country, love of Arsinoé, ideology, petty jealousies, and the machinations of power roil in matters of life and death.

Director:
Éric Rohmer

Runtime:
1h 55min

Genre:
Thriller, Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Katerina Didaskalou
  as
  Arsinoé
• 
  Serge Renko
  as
  Fiodor
• 
  Cyrielle Clair
  as
  Maguy
• 
  Grigori Manoukov
  as
  Boris
• 
  Dimitri Rafalsky
  as
  général Dobrinsky