East/West

1999 121 min Drama, Romance

June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step.

budget $11,500,000 earnings $6,032,000 return 0.5x

director Régis Wargnier

writers Rustam Ibragimbekov, Sergei Bodrov, Louis Gardel, Régis Wargnier