East/West is a 1999 French film directed by Régis Wargnier, starring Sandrine Bonnaire , Oleg Menshikov , Sergei Bodrov Jr. and Catherine Deneuve . Authors of scenario and dialogue: Rustam Ibragimbekov, Sergei Bodrov, Louis Gardel and Régis Wargnier. After the Second World War, former White Emigres are offered Soviet citizenship, amnesty, and an invitation to return to the Motherland, so that they could join in the post-war restructuring. While most of the émigrés decide to remain abroad, there are many people anxious to return to the ‘Holy Russia’. Among... the returnees are Alexei Golovin , his French wife Marie and their son Sergey. But Stalin's offer was merely a tactical step. On arrival in Odessa, many of their travelling companions are executed on the spot or sent to the GULAG. Alexei and his family escape this fate and are sent to Kiev simply because the Soviet authorities realise that they have much to gain from this young doctor. He will be paraded as an example, a model "returnee".
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| Release date: | September 1, 1999 |
| Directed by: | Régis Wargnier |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 121 Minutes |
| Producer: | Alexander Rodnyansky |
| Editor: | Hervé Schneid |
| Music by: | Patrick Doyle |
| Cinematography: | Laurent Dailland |
| Screenplay by: | Sergei Bodrov, Rustam Ibragimbekov, Louis Gardel, Régis Wargnier |