To See Paris and Die

Overview

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.

Cast

Dmitriy Malikov

Yuri

Tatyana Vasileva

Elena

Vladimir Steklov

Stanislav Lyubshin

Ekaterina Semenova

Oksana Arbuzova

Nina Usatova

Viktor Stepanov

Nikolai Stambula

Yelena Fadeyeva