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When he arrived in the U.S., in 1989, with his parents, Oleg and Yelena, and his younger sister, Marsha, he was a 13-year-old fish-out-of-chlorinated-water. He didn't have a good place to swim, didn't have a coach, didn't have a swimming future. How could this have been? His life since he'd been six had centered around a pool. Oleg, who worked as a coffee-shop manager in the U.S.S.R., had enrolled Lenny in a class at the Army Sports Club in Odessa, just something to do until...
After World War II, the Soviet Union invited all its emigres to come home and help rebuild the motherland. Most of them were instantly killed or sent to the Gulag, victims of Stalinist paranoia. This complex, heartbreaking film recounts the brutal struggle of one couple to survive. Oleg Menchikov plays a doctor, valuable to the state, who gets along by pretending to go along. Sandrine Bonnaire is his French-born wife, on whom the state visits its worst depredations. But East-West is more than their story; it is a great, gray epic of a society wasted and terrorized...
...Alexei, played by Oleg Menshikov (Prisoner of the Mountains, Burnt by the Sun) leaves France to start a new life in Russia, the country where he was born, with his wife Marie and son Serioja. It doesn't take long for Alexei and Marie to realize they have made a huge mistake. Upon arriving in Russia, in a scene reminiscent of Hitler's concentration camps, Alexei and Marie watch as soldiers separate family members and then shoot a boy that attempts to rejoin his father. Events take a turn for the worse when a KGB officer accuses Marie of being...
...Oleg Menchikov...
Also returning, for their 11th performance with EWC, are 1964 and 1968 Olympic Gold medalists Ludmina and Oleg Protopopov. The two are married and have been skating together for 45 years...