The son of an editor discovers that one of his father's writers is a former criminal from the Eastern bloc.
Acting
Oleg Yankovskiy's smoldering mystery man energy.
Writing
Wry observations on literary pretension.
Director
Didier Goldschmidt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Oleg Yankovskiy was a massive Soviet star; this was one of his rare Western co-productions during Russia's chaotic '90s film industry collapse.
The film captures a very specific 1990s French fascination with 'exotic' Eastern European identity—part romanticization, part anxiety about the newly opened borders.
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