
An Affair of Love(1999)
A man and a woman meet to fulfill her sexual fantasy.


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
Gabrielle Develay

Sandrine Bonnaire
Marie

Oleg Menshikov
Aleksei Golovin

Sergei Bodrov Jr.
Sasha Vasilyev

Tatyana Dogileva
Olga

Bohdan Stupka
Colonel Boyko
Ruben Tapiero
Seryozha, à 7 ans
Erwan Baynaud
Seryozha, à 14 ans

Grigori Manoukov
Pirogov

Meglena Karalambova
Nina Fyodorovna
East/West is a drama, romance film released in 1999. Directed by Régis Wargnier, it stars Catherine Deneuve, Sandrine Bonnaire, Oleg Menshikov. 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.
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