The Frenchman
“USSR during the thaw and underground jazz through the eyes of a student from Paris”
Overview
In 1957 French student Pierre Durand comes to Moscow to do an internship at Moscow State University. Here he meets ballerina Kira Galkina and photographer Valera Uspenskiy. With them he discovers the cultural side of Moscow — not just the traditional one, but the underground one as well. During his year in Russia’s capital Pierre lives an entirely different life than what he’s used to. But the internship and the experience of the Soviet people’s way of life are not the only things Pierre is after. He’s searching for his father, White officer Tatishchev, who was arrested in the 1930s.
Cast
Anton Rival
Pierre
Evguenya Obraztsova
Kira
Evgeniy Tkachuk
Uspenskiy
Aleksandr Baluev
Tatishchev
Nina Drobysheva
Olga Kirillovna
Natalya Tenyakova
Mariya Kirillovna
Roman Madyanov
Chukhnovskiy
Mikhail Efremov
Uspenskiy's father
Lucie Aron
Nicole
Jérémie Duvall
Jean-Marie
Vera Lashkova
Anna Fyodorovna
Valentina Mazunina
woman, meeting Pierre at the airport