The read
Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying. The brilliant exile, Fiodor Voronin, a general at 20, is the deputy at the White Russian Military Union, probably slated to replace the aging Général Dobrinsky soon. Fiodor's Greek wife, Arsinoé, paints and stays away from politics, befriending Communist neighbors. Her health declines; the attentive Fiodor arranges care and, against the backdrop of Stalin's Great Purge, considers his options. He plays a chess game in which love of country, love of Arsinoé, ideology, petty jealousies, and the machinations of power roil in matters of life and death.
Ratings
Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do.
31 audience votes
Key crew
- Éric RohmerScreenplay
- Éric RohmerDirector
Cast
- Katerina DidaskalouArsinoé
- Serge RenkoFiodor
- Cyrielle ClairMaguy
- Grigori ManoukovBoris
- Dimitri Rafalskygénéral Dobrinsky
- Nathalia Krouglyla Générale
- Amanda LangletJanine
- Emmanuel SalingerAndré
- Vitaliy CheremetAlexis Tcherepnine
- Jeanne RamburDany
- Georges BenoîtLe commissaire français
- Laurent Le DoyenCast