The Frenchman
USSR during the thaw and underground jazz through the eyes of a student from Paris
128 mins
In 1957 French student Pierre Durand comes to Moscow to do an internship at Moscow State University. Here he meets ballerina Kira Galkina and photographer Valera Uspenskiy. With them he discovers the cultural side of Moscow — not just the traditional one, but the underground one as well. During his year in Russia’s capital Pierre lives an entirely different life than what he’s used to. But the internship and the experience of the Soviet people’s way of life are not the only things Pierre is after. He’s searching for his father, White officer Tatishchev, who was arrested in the 1930s.
Vera Lashkova
Anna Fyodorovna
Alena Oskina
Chukhnovskiy's wife
Yelena Ryabinkina
choreographer
Sergey Afanasyev
Volodya
Anastasiya Pitel
Oskar's girlfriend
Aleksei Smirnov
Viktor
Kseniya Pokrovskaya
Sveta
Yuriy Shaygardanov
Director of Photography
Lyudmila Gaintseva
Costume Design
Alla Strelnikova
Editor
Pavel Chepikov
Assistant Set Decoration
Yekaterina Kharnas
Assistant Set Decoration
Sergey Lukashevich
Set Decoration
Yuliya Makushina
Assistant Production Design
Elena Dmitrienko
Makeup Artist
Daryana Gizatulina
Assistant Production Design
Sergei Snyatovskiy
Camera Operator
Elena Gorbunova
Executive Producer
Oleg Tatarinov
Sound