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Leningrad. November

Leningrad. November

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 8, 1990

Runtime

1h 26m

Genres

Drama

User Score

50%

Original Title

Ленинград. Ноябрь

Production Companies

Lenfilm, Neue Prometheus

Director

Andreas Christoph Schmidt

Description

After a ten year long stay in West Germany, Max returns to the Soviet Union to visit his deadly ill father in Leningrad. There he finds a friend in a man who calls himself Igor and he begins a love-affair with the deafmute Lena. Around Max' relationship to his father, Igor and Lena, losely held episodes give a many fasetted portrait of Leningrad and its inhabitants. In the eyes of the returning Max, the city is at once well-known and foreign. Lyrically saturated images and sophisticated editing contributes to making the film an expressive description of a changing city.