June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step.

Catherine Deneuve
as Gabrielle Develay

Sandrine Bonnaire
as Marie

Oleg Menshikov
as Aleksei Golovin

Sergei Bodrov Jr.
as Sasha Vasilyev

Tatyana Dogileva
as Olga

Bohdan Stupka
as Colonel Boyko

Ruben Tapiero
as Seryozha, à 7 ans

Erwan Baynaud
as Seryozha, à 14 ans

Grigori Manoukov
as Pirogov

Meglena Karalambova
as Nina Fyodorovna