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.
Catherine Deneuve
as Gabrielle Develay
Sandrine Bonnaire
as Marie
Олег Меньшиков
as Aleksei Golovin
Сергей Бодров мл.
as Sasha Vasilyev
Татьяна Догилева
as Olga
Богдан Ступка
as Colonel Boyko
Ruben Tapiero
as Seryozha, à 7 ans
Erwan Baynaud
as Seryozha, à 14 ans
Grigori Manoukov
as Pirogov
Meglena Karalambova
as Nina Fyodorovna
Atanass Atanassov
as Viktor
Tania Massalitinova
as Anastasia Aleksandrovna
