In Russia in the late 1960s, Elena will do anything to see that her son Yuri succeeds as a pianist: she longs for him to win a competition that will send him to Paris. To ensure his success, she denies her love for an iconoclastic painter for whom she models, prostitutes herself to a Party figure, encourages her son to break with his true love because the girl is a Jew, and, in general, behaves in paranoid ways, believing, for example, that a new lodger, Evgeny, is a KGB spy. She also has her own family secrets, which she will go to any length to keep her son from learning.
Directing | Aleksandr Proshkin | Director |
Writing | Georgi Branev | Writer |
Production | Rustam Ibragimbekov | Producer |
Production | Mikhail Litvak | Producer |
Camera | Boris Brozhovsky | Director of Photography |
Sound | Roman Ledenyov | Music |
Costume & Make-Up | Alina Budnikova | Costume Design |
Editing | Yelena Mikhaylova | Editor |