East/West
An unforgettable story of love, betrayal and survival.
Production
Budget
$11 500 000
Box office
$6 031 521
Director
Actors
Catherine Deneuve, Sandrine Bonnaire, Oleg Menshikov, Sergei Bodrov Jr., Tatyana Dogileva, Bohdan Stupka, Ruben Tapiero, Erwan Baynaud, Grigori Manoukov, Meglena Karalambova
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Aleksander Rodnyansky, Mate Cantero, Evgeny Gindilis, Kiril Kirilov, Yves Marmion, Patrick Sandrin, Stéphane Sorlat, Igor Tolstunov, Galina Toneva
Camera operator
Laurent Dailland
Composer
Artist
Oleksii Levchenko, Vladimir Svetozarov
Audition
Editing
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on the book by Nina Krivosheinaya, "Four Thirds of Our Life" (1984).
- One scene in Brian De Palma’s “Femme Fatale” (2002) is set at the Cannes Film Festival during the premiere of “East-West.”
- Oleg Menshikov played his role without knowing the French language – he learned his lines entirely by ear. After each shooting day, he would learn the French text, transcribed into Russian letters by his assistant, for filming the next episode.
- The film is based on Nina Krivosheinaya's book "Three Quarters of Our Life" (1984).
- One of the scenes in Brian De Palma's film "Femme Fatale" (2002) is set at the Cannes Film Festival during the premiere of "East-West".
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Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
