À l’est de moi (2009) - film review

Bojena Horackova

Drama

Summary

In 2008, Marta takes a train journey through the former Eastern Bloc countries to Moscow, the Moscow that still haunts her and which she could not have escaped from whilst the tanks were still there. As she speaks to the people she meets in this post-Communist country, she recalls the difficult times when, in the early 1980s, she left Prague for Paris. As she reflects on past and present, Marta soon realises that this new East is not her home...

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Credits

Director: Bojena Horackova
Script: Vincent Dieutre, Bojena Horackova
Photo: Caroline Champetier
Cast: Patricia Chraskova (Marta), Louis-Do de Lencquesaing (Le client), Carole Deffit, Alexandre de La Baume, Geneviève Casile (La logeuse), Olivier Rambeau, Mireille Perrier (La mère de Lionel), Elise Ruth Robstad, Olga Kurylenko (La prostituée russe), Laetitia Spigarelli, Louis Salkind, Anne-Lise Pitre Béguin, Eva Ionesco (La fille dans les toilettes du Palace), Anne Lise Pitre (Lily), Vincent Dieutre (L’homme entretien école de cinéma)
Country: France
Language: French / Russian / Czech
Runtime: 85 min

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