White King, Red Queen
White King, Red Queen (Russian: Белый король, красная королева, romanized: Belyy korol, krasnaya koroleva; 1992) is a Russian film. The composer Isaak Schwarz won a Nika Award from the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences for the film's music.
| White King, Red Queen | |
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| Directed by | Sergei Bodrov |
| Produced by | Jean Kaze Lila Kazes Karen Shakhnazarov |
| Written by | Sergei Bodrov Ganna Slutsky |
| Starring | Tatyana Vasilyeva André Dussollier Aleksei Zharkov Armen Dzhigarkhanyan |
| Music by | Isaak Schwarz |
| Cinematography | Fedor Aranyshev |
| Edited by | Tatyana Egorycheva Alberto Yaccelini |
Production company | Initial Groupe Mosfilm |
Release date | 1992 |
Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
Plot
The film is set in the 1990s. A trade union delegation, led by former Institute of Marxism-Leninism employee Yekaterina, arrives in a small Swiss town. Staying in the same hotel is Grandmaster Alexey Goryunov, who had gone to the West 20 years ago and since then been hopelessly in love with Yekaterina. His feelings remain unchanged, and he asks her to stay.
Cast
- Tatyana Vasileva as Ekaterina, the former employee of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism
- André Dussollier as Alexey Goryunov, chess grandmaster-migrant (voice Aleksandr Feklistov)
- Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Makeev
- Vladimir Ilyin as Zolin
- Aleksei Zharkov as Sergey Zhirov
- Tatyana Kravchenko as Irina Tischenko
- Sergei Bodrov Jr. as bellboy
- Andrey Tashkov as Nikolay Tyurin
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References
- ЛУЧШАЯ МУЗЫКА К ФИЛЬМУ, Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences, retrieved 2010-01-01. (in Russian)
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