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To See Paris and Die

In Russia in the late 1960s, Elena will do anything to see that her son Yuri succeeds as a pianist: she longs for him to win a competition that will send him to Paris. To ensure his success, she denies her love for an iconoclastic painter for whom she models, prostitutes herself to a Party figure, encourages her son to break with his true love because the girl is a Jew, and, in general, behaves in paranoid ways, believing, for example, that a new lodger, Evgeny, is a KGB spy. She also has her own family secrets, which she will go to any length to keep her son from learning.

Top Cast

  • Dmitriy Malikov

    Dmitriy Malikov

    Yuri

  • Tatyana Vasileva

    Tatyana Vasileva

    Elena

  • Vladimir Steklov

    Vladimir Steklov

  • Stanislav Lyubshin

    Stanislav Lyubshin

  • Ekaterina Semenova

    Ekaterina Semenova

  • Oksana Arbuzova

    Oksana Arbuzova

  • Nina Usatova

    Nina Usatova

  • Viktor Stepanov

    Viktor Stepanov

  • Nikolai Stambula

    Nikolai Stambula

Overview

In Russia in the late 1960s, Elena will do anything to see that her son Yuri succeeds as a pianist: she longs for him to win a competition that will send him to Paris. To ensure his success, she denies her love for an iconoclastic painter for whom she models, prostitutes herself to a Party figure, encourages her son to break with his true love because the girl is a Jew, and, in general, behaves in paranoid ways, believing, for example, that a new lodger, Evgeny, is a KGB spy. She also has her own family secrets, which she will go to any length to keep her son from learning.

Rating

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