The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying. The brilliant exile, Fiodor Voronin, a general at 20, is the deputy at the White Russian Military Union, probably slated to replace the aging Général Dobrinsky soon. Fiodor's Greek wife, Arsinoé, paints and stays away from politics, befriending Communist neighbors. Her health declines; the attentive Fiodor arranges care and, against the backdrop of Stalin's Great Purge, considers his options. He plays a chess game in which love of country, love of Arsinoé, ideology, petty jealousies, and the machinations of power roil in matters of life and death.
Κατερίνα Διδασκάλου
as Arsinoé
Serge Renko
as Fiodor
Cyrielle Clair
as Maguy
Grigori Manoukov
as Boris
Dimitri Rafalsky
as général Dobrinsky
Nathalia Krougly
as la Générale
Amanda Langlet
as Janine
Emmanuel Salinger
as André
Vitaliy Cheremet
as Alexis Tcherepnine
Jeanne Rambur
as Dany
Georges Benoît
as Le commissaire français
Laurent Le Doyen
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