Leningrad. November

(1990)

★ 7.5 IMDb · 2 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1990

Runtime: 83 мин

Country: Germany, Soviet Union

Director: Oleg Morozov, Andreas Christoph Schmidt

Cast: Григорий Гладий, Игорь Кечаев, Elena Velichko, Наталья Коляканова, Cristin König, Никита Михайловский, Gennadi Mitrofanov, Георгий Тейх, Борис Юхананов, Svyatoslav Zaderiy

Plot

After a ten year long stay in West Germany, Max returns to the Soviet Union to visit his deadly ill father in Leningrad. There he finds a friend in a man who calls himself Igor and he begins a love-affair with the deafmute Lena. Around Max' relationship to his father, Igor and Lena, losely held episodes give a many fasetted portrait of Leningrad and its inhabitants. In the eyes of the returning Max, the city is at once well-known and foreign. Lyrically saturated images and sophisticated editing contributes to making the film an expressive description of a changing city.