Film

The Frenchman

2019 · 2h 8m · History · Drama

USSR during the thaw and underground jazz through the eyes of a student from Paris

IMDb

6.7

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.

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

Alena Oskina

Chukhnovskiy's wife

Mariya Berdinskikh

Chukhnovskiy's daughter

Yelena Ryabinkina

choreographer

Vladimir Zaytsev

Vasiliy

• Andrey SmirnovProducer · Director · Screenplay
• Elena PrudnikovaProducer
• Valery TodorovskyProducer
• Elena GorbunovaExecutive Producer
• Yuriy ShaygardanovDirector of Photography
• Alla StrelnikovaEditor

A Frenchman – trailer | IFFR 2020

Release date

October 31, 2019

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

2h 8m

Rated

16+

Genres

History, Drama