
"USSR during the thaw and underground jazz through the eyes of a student from Paris"
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.
Pierre

Kira

Uspenskiy

Tatishchev

Olga Kirillovna

Mariya Kirillovna

Chukhnovskiy

Uspenskiy's father

Nicole

Jean-Marie

Anna Fyodorovna
woman, meeting Pierre at the airport

Chukhnovskiy's wife

Chukhnovskiy's daughter

ballet teacher-tutor

choreographer
Vasiliy

commandant of the dorm

Krivoruchko

Tamara

girl at a house party

girl at a house party

KGB's curator

alcoholic in ushanka

district militia officer

Oskar

Volodya
Volodya's wife

Oskar's girlfriend
Zabolotskiy

Samoshkin

Samoshkin's wife

Alina

Marusya

Viktor
George

Zhanna

Sveta
security guard

woman at the bread factory

Obrezkovs neighbour

Ustyugov
