Film: East/West (1999)

Golden Globe: Best Foreign Film
Thursday, 7/31/2025
5:15 - 7:30
Potrero Meeting Room
Potrero

1616 20th Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
United States

415-355-2822

1946 - A naive Russian physician accepts Stalin's call to all expatriates to help rebuild Russia after World War II. With his adored French wife and their beloved son, they must learn to live in Stalinist Soviet Union.

Director: Régis Wargnier

Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Oleg Menshikov, Catherine Deneuve, Sergei Bodrov Jr., Grigori Manoukov, Tatyana Dogileva, Bohdan Stupka, Hubert Saint-Macary, Atanass Atanassov

Language: French and Russian

PG-13, 121 mins., 1999. Closed captions (CC) in English.

 

 

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