Overview

After a ten year long stay in West Germany, Max returns to the Soviet Union to visit his deadly ill father in Leningrad. There he finds a friend in a man who calls himself Igor and he begins a love-affair with the deafmute Lena. Around Max' relationship to his father, Igor and Lena, losely held episodes give a many fasetted portrait of Leningrad and its inhabitants. In the eyes of the returning Max, the city is at once well-known and foreign. Lyrically saturated images and sophisticated editing contributes to making the film an expressive description of a changing city.

Genres

Cast

Gregory Hlady

Max

Igor Kechaev

Igor

Elena Velichko

Lena

Natalya Kolyakanova

Natasha

Nikita Mikhajlovsky

Nikita

Georgiy Teykh

Max's Dad

Boris Yukhananov

Igor's Friend

Svyatoslav Zaderiy

Slava

Mikhail Dementyev

Boy

Bronislaw Velichko