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.
Gregory Hlady
Igor Kechaev
Elena Velichko
Natalya Kolyakanova
Cristin König
Nikita Mikhajlovsky
Gennadi Mitrofanov
Georgiy Teykh
Boris Yukhananov
Svyatoslav Zaderiy
Mikhail Dementyev
Alexey Bogorad
Victor Vakha
Bronislaw Velichko
Ilya Goltsov
Oksana Ezlovetskaya
Roman Yeremyan
Alexey Kanunnikov
Thomas Kufus
Anastasiya Mikhailovskaya
Alexander Donskikh von Romanov
Nina Niss-Goldman