Est-Ouest - A love in Russia
| Movie | |
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| German title | Est-Ouest - A love in Russia |
| Original title | Est-Ouest |
| Country of production | France , Russia , Ukraine , Bulgaria , Spain |
| original language | French , Russian |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 121 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Regis Wargnier |
| script | Régis Wargnier, Rüstəm İbrahimbəyov , Sergei Wladimirowitsch Bodrow , Louis Gardel |
| production | Yves Marmion |
| music | Patrick Doyle |
| camera | Laurent Dailland |
| cut | Hervé Schneid |
| occupation | |
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Est-Ouest - Eine Liebe in Russland (Original title: Est-Ouest ) is a French , internationally co-produced film drama with Sandrine Bonnaire and Catherine Deneuve from 1999.
action
After the Second World War , Stalin calls all compatriots who fled to the West after the Russian Revolution of 1917 back to the devastated motherland to help rebuild. The émigré Alexej Golovin also believed in Stalin's promises of a peaceful new beginning. He is now returning home with his French wife Marie and their son Serjoscha. But as soon as they arrive in Odessa by ship, it turns out that Stalin was only using his promises as an excuse to murder the exiles or have them put in labor camps. As a doctor who seems too important to the Soviets , Alexej and his family are housed in a one-room apartment in Kiev . From then on he worked in the infirmary of a textile factory and was ready to come to terms with the regime to protect his family and to allow himself to be used as an exemplary returnees by the Soviets. However, Marie cannot stand the hardships of life in the USSR and desperately wants to return to France , which increasingly alienates her and Alexej.
Marie finally turns to the famous French actress Gabrielle Develay, who is currently on tour in Kiev. Marie wants to contact the French government through Gabrielle. But despite Gabrielle's efforts, Marie has to stay in the USSR. Marie finally finds consolation with her 17-year-old neighbor Sascha. Sascha is an excellent swimmer. However, his attitude prevents him from being accepted into the national team. As participating in the European Championships in Vienna gives him the opportunity to flee to the West, Marie encourages him to train harder.
Although Sascha wins a decisive national competition, he is not allowed to go to Vienna and is instead transferred to a training camp on the Black Sea . In order to flee anyway, he swims ten nautical miles to a Turkish freighter and thus gains his freedom. When the western media reported his story, Marie was put in a prison camp by the Soviets. Sascha, who fell in love with Marie, turns to Gabrielle to plan Marie's escape together. But when he has no more hope, Sascha cuts his wrists. Gabrielle finds his lifeless body and vows to do anything to bring Marie to France.
After six years, Marie is released as a broken woman. Alexej takes care of her devotedly, after which she slowly recovers from her stay in the camp. Two years later they accompany a trade delegation with Serjoscha to Bulgaria , where Alexej finally reveals the cards: As agreed, Gabrielle is waiting in a hotel lobby, who takes Marie and Serjoscha to the French embassy with forged identity cards. However, as a Soviet citizen, Alexei cannot accompany her. Marie and Serjoscha managed to flee to France via the Greek border. Alexej was transferred to a gulag as a doctor and was only able to travel to his family in France in 1987.
background
The shooting took place in Kiev and Odessa as well as in the Bulgarian cities of Burgas , Plovdiv , Varna and Sofia . Pierre-Yves Gayraud designed the costumes .
Est-Ouest - A Love in Russia premiered on August 2, 1999 at the Locarno Film Festival. Less than a month later, the film was released in French cinemas and was also shown at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 15 . In Germany the film was released on June 29, 2000. In the German dubbing , Sandrine Bonnaire by Maud Ackermann and Catherine Deneuve by Helga Trümper were dubbed. The jury of the German Film and Media Assessment awarded the film the title “valuable”. In 2008 the film was released on DVD.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films described Est-Ouest - Eine Liebe in Russland as "[s] sensitive staged, excellently played epic about the destruction of love through external circumstances". In doing so, "his topic will not be betrayed either to the effects of a political thriller or the sentimentality of a melodrama". Because of the “truthfulness of the fable”, the film is extremely touching. For Cinema , the film was, in short, a "[cool] cold war melodrama". According to Prisma , director Régis Wargnier “remained true to the genre of melodrama” by staging “another pathetic film about the surge of emotions”. The figures are “drawn in a simple way”, but this flaw is compensated by “the successful camera work and the superbly captured time color”.
Awards
At the César Awards in 2000, the film was nominated in the categories of Best Film , Best Director , Best Actress (Sandrine Bonnaire) and Best Film Music, but could not prevail against the competition. Est-Ouest - A Love in Russia was also nominated for Best Foreign Language Film for an Oscar , the Golden Globe and the Sierra Award at the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards. Régis Wargnier's film received audience awards at the Miami Film Festival, the Palm Springs International Film Festival and the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
Web links
- Est-Ouest - Love in Russia in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Cinema trailer on toutlecine.com (French)
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Est-Ouest - A love in Russia. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. fbw-filmb Bewertung.com
- ↑ Est-Ouest - A love in Russia. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ↑ cf. prisma.de