This is 1920: Sophia and Trofim Ivanytch have been living on Vassilievski Island, which is part of Petrograd, for thirteen years. In their house, which looks like a ship wreck, the atmosphere is gloomy. Sophia cannot have children and she is aware that, because of that, she is likely to lose her husband. That is why, when their neighbor dies, she asks Trofim to take in Ganka, his orphaned thirteen-year-old daughter. Trofim agrees and their new life begins...
Cast
Crew
Ihor Minayev
Director, Screenplay
Jacques Baynac
Writer
Bernard Stora
Writer
Evgeny Zamyatin
Story
Cristiana Tullio-Altan
Editor
Noëlle Boisson
Editor
Volodymyr Pankov
Director of Photography
Jérôme Paillard
Executive Producer
Georges Benayoun
Executive Producer
Angelo Pastore
Executive Producer
Daniel Toscan du Plantier
Producer
Isabelle Huppert
Associate Producer
Ronald Chammah
Associate Producer
Dmitriy Sidorov
Production Assistant
Vladimir Murzin
Production Design
Ilya Amursky
Production Design
Igor Urvantsev
Sound
Anatoli Dergachyov
Original Music Composer
