Two horny Soviet bros discover antisemitism exists and it ruins EVERYTHING.
Two Moscow students are mostly concerned with scoring with women but their lives change radically when one of them falls for a Jewish girl whose family is being persecuted by anonymous anti-Semites and is preparing to emigrate to Israel.
Acting
Mironov's horny-to-heartbroken pipeline is devastating
Direction
Todorovsky captures crumbling Moscow with painful intimacy
Director
Valery Todorovsky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during perestroika's final gasp, it captures the specific dread of Soviet Jews facing the 1990s emigration wave — over a million left for Israel and the US.
This was Todorovsky's directorial debut; he later became one of Russia's most commercially successful directors, making this his most politically raw work.
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