The Frenchman (2019)
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.
- Released
- 2019-10-31
- Genres
- History, Drama
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Andrey Smirnov, Andrey Smirnov
- TMDB rating
- 5.9/10 from 13 votes
Cast
- Anton Rival as Pierre
- Evguenya Obraztsova as Kira
- Evgeniy Tkachuk as Uspenskiy
- Aleksandr Baluev as Tatishchev
- Nina Drobysheva as Olga Kirillovna
- Natalya Tenyakova as Mariya Kirillovna
- Roman Madyanov as Chukhnovskiy
- Mikhail Efremov as Uspenskiy's father
- Lucie Aron as Nicole
- Jérémie Duvall as Jean-Marie
- Vera Lashkova as Anna Fyodorovna
- Valentina Mazunina as woman, meeting Pierre at the airport