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.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
FR
Genres:
Thriller, Drama
Release:
March 2004
Production:
Rezo Productions, Alta Producción S.L. Unipersonal, BIM Distribuzione, Canal+, Cofimage 15, Compagnie Éric Rohmer (CER), Eurimages, France 2 Cinéma, Mentor Cinema, Tornasol Media, Wild Bunch
Cast:
Katerina Didaskalou, Serge Renko, Cyrielle Clair, Grigori Manoukov, Dimitri Rafalsky, Nathalia Krougly, Amanda Langlet, Emmanuel Salinger, Vitaliy Cheremet, Jeanne Rambur, Georges Benoît, Laurent Le Doyen
Tags:
espionage
