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The Frenchman (2019) [N/A]

Release Date:
October 31, 2019

Original Title:
Француз

Alternate Titles:
Frantsuz
Le Français
Prantslane

Genres:
Drama | History

Production Companies:
All Media A Start Company
CGF Films
Marmot Film
Valery Todorovsky Production Company
АНО «КАДР»

Production Countries:
Russia

Ratings / Certifications:
RU: 16+ 

Runtime: 128

USSR during the thaw and underground jazz through the eyes of a student from Paris

Overview from TheMovieDB

In 1957 French student Pierre Durand comes to Moscow to do an internship at Moscow State University. Here he meets ballerina Kira Galkina and photographer Valera Uspenskiy. With them he discovers the cultural side of Moscow — not just the traditional one, but the underground one as well. During his year in Russia’s capital Pierre lives an entirely different life than what he’s used to. But the internship and the experience of the Soviet people’s way of life are not the only things Pierre is after. He’s searching for his father, White officer Tatishchev, who was arrested in the 1930s.

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Assistant Production Design:
Daryana Gizatulina
Yuliya Makushina

Assistant Set Decoration:
Pavel Chepikov
Yekaterina Kharnas

Camera Operator:
Sergei Snyatovskiy

Costume Design:
Lyudmila Gaintseva

Director:
Andrey Smirnov

Director of Photography:
Yuriy Shaygardanov

Editor:
Alla Strelnikova

Executive Producer:
Elena Gorbunova

Makeup Artist:
Yelena Dmitriyenko

Producer:
Andrey Smirnov
Elena Prudnikova
Valery Todorovsky

Production Design:
Vladimir Gudilin

Screenplay:
Andrey Smirnov

Set Decoration:
Sergey Lukashevich

Sound:
Oleg Tatarinov

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