
134 minutes
8/12/2008
Before leaving Russia and moving to Western Europe, famous opera singer Lyuba travels to her hometown to say goodbye and show her teenage son around. But Andrey, Lyuba’s son, disappears and she must stay in the place she hates the most to search for him. A piercing exploration of identity and transformation, against the backdrop of a Russian hinterland, surrounded by Orthodox churches and snow.

Kseniya Rappoport
as Lyubov Vasilyeva

Roman Shmakov
as Andrei Vasilyev
Yevgeniya Kuznetsova

Sergey Sosnovsky
as 'Sharyy' Sergeyev

Sergey Medvedev
as Andrey 'Monakh'

Igor Khripunov
as Andrei (Kind)

Vladislav Abashin
as Manager

Dmitriy Podnozov
as Polizist

Robert Vaab
as Arseniys Vater

German Orlov
as Fyodorovitch

Juris Lauciņš

Ulyana Lukina

Olga Onishchenko

Natalya Batrak
Andrei Smirnov

Timofey Tribuntsev

Andrey Rodionov

Yekaterina Durova

Aleksandr Ilin

Yury Gumirov

Oleg Rudenko-Travin

Tatyana Kuznetsova