Overview

Top astrophysicist Sasha Greenberg has spent the past 17 years working in the United States. An invitation to speak at a Congress on Cosmology in his native Moscow brings him home for the first time to confront colleagues, and unanswered personal questions. As Russia undergoes perestroika, public and private lives are radically re-assessed and Sasha sees the social and sexual upheavals as a crisis

Genres

Cast

Sam Robards

Alexander aka "Sasha" Greenberg

F. Murray Abraham

Professor Gross

Ally Sheedy

Helen

Jicky Schnee

Jill

Valery Afanasyev

Mariya Andreeva

Anatoliy Goryachev

Aleksandr Pozharov

Andrey Sergeev

Oksana Stashenko

Natasha

Stanislav Belyaev

Sasha Age 17

Irina Anokhina

Soviet Customs Officer 1