East/west (Subtitles)

2000 • 119 minutes

About this movie

June 1946: Stalin launched a vast propaganda campaign aimed at Russian emigrants living in the West, offering them an amnesty, a Soviet passport and the chance to participate in the post-war reconstruction of the USSR. Alexei Golovine, an emigrant living in France responds to this appeal along with many others. He decides to return to the mother country which he has missed so deeply, taking his young French wife, Marie and his son Serioja with him.
Of course, Stalin's welcome is not what they expected and the family is slowly torn apart as they argue over their own fate. (c) 1999 Motion Picture: © 1999 UGC YM, France 3 Cinema, NTV Profit, Gala Films Ltd. and Mate Productions. All Rights Reserved. | English Subtitles: © 2000 Sony Pictures Classics Inc. All Rights Reserved.