In Russia, in 1907, a rich lenient husband of a loose unfaithful woman is brutally murdered. She and her two lovers are suspects, but what about the stranger she met just before the murder? With no friends left, she and the stranger bond.
Acting
Sandrine Bonnaire commits to material unworthy of her.
Production
St. Petersburg locations pretending to be 1907 on a budget.
Director
Georges Bardawil
Sandrine Bonnaire
Natalia
William Hurt
The stranger
Jerzy Radziwiłowicz
Modeste
Denis Sinyavskiy
Volodia
Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Kriouchoff
Marie Dubois
The mother
Marina Golovine
Lydia
Olga Volkova
The onion eater
Sergei Yursky
First inspector
Svetlana Kryuchkova
Olga
Aleksei Nilov
Dmitriy
Gennadiy Bogachyov
Larisa Guzeeva
Andrey Noskov
Yakov Petrov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was French-Lebanese director Georges Bardawil's only feature film; he vanished from cinema afterward like his own mysterious stranger.
Shot in post-Soviet Russia with international financing during that brief '90s window when Eastern European locations were cheap and exotic for Western productions.
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