Joël Chapron

Fred (Vincent Lindon) is a former crane driver who was a victim of the closure of his factory. He takes care of the little boy of his girlfriend (Clotilde Courau), does the housework and sometimes goes to the job center but boredom is inescapable. One day, because he accepted to drive a truck for a friend to a warehouse, he's caught up in a vicious spiral that goes beyond him. It's all the more serious as shady men want to eliminate him an the police is on his back.

Savaşın sona ermesiyle Stalin, ülkeyi terkeden Rusları geri çağırır. Yetenekli genç doktor Alexei Golovine (Oleg Menchikov) yanında güzel Fransız eşi Marie (Sandrine Bonnaire) ve oğulları, iyi düşüncelerle Sovyetler Birliği'ne geri dönerler. Ancak ülkeye varmalarının ardından yapılan sorgulanmaları başka bir takım savaş sonrası Rusya gerçekleri izleyecektir, paylaşılan apartmanlar, şüpheli komşular ve özel hayat yokluğu. Marie kısa süre sonra şartlara isyan etmeye başlayacaktır. Ancak Aleksei yeteneklerine ihtiyaç duyulduğunu ve yetkililer tarafından takdir edildiğini anlar. Marie tira çıkmış Fransız bir aktris (Catherine Deneuve) ile karşılaşır ve kendini zor bir seçimle karşı karşıya bulur: Özgürlüğü için kocasını ve çoğunu bırakacak ya da belirsiz bir gelecekle yüz yüze kalacaktır.

The author of the film decides to leave the country where she lives, in connection with the outbreak of the dramatic events, and return home to Armenia in search of a worthy example and solutions on how to live on. Paradjanov's house becomes a place of inspiration and a point of no return to toxic reality.

The young artist Burtsev goes to Paris about the inheritance left to him by his uncle, who left for France with the first wave of emigrants. There, he is expected by the hostility of some persons interested in the inheritance, and the open sympathies of others - the old man Yerikhonov and his daughter Asya, who fell in love with Burtsev.

The film is about the relations between the inhabitants of Russia and the Caucasus, and about their influence on each other. Young Georgian Georgi Iobadze tells the audience the story of the Vainakhs (a group of peoples of the North Caucasus and Georgia) in the period from 1813 to 1913.

A talk show