
“A moving epic of love and betrayal...”
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.
Release Date: 3/17/2004
Runtime: 115 minutes
Languages: Russian, German, French, Greek
Director: Éric Rohmer
00Companies: Rezo Productions, Compagnie Éric Rohmer, France 2 Cinéma, BiM Distribuzione, Alta Films, Tornasol Media, Strada Films, Mentor Cinema
Countries: France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Russia

Katerina Didaskalou
Arsinoé

Serge Renko
Fiodor

Cyrielle Clair
Maguy

Grigori Manoukov
Boris

Dimitri Rafalsky
général Dobrinsky
Nathalia Krougly
la Générale

Amanda Langlet
Janine

Emmanuel Salinger
André
Vitaliy Cheremet
Alexis Tcherepnine
Jeanne Rambur
Dany

Georges Benoît
Le commissaire français

Laurent Le Doyen
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