White King, Red Queen

White King, Red Queen (Russian: Белый король, красная королева; 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.

Plot

1990s. Trade union delegation led by a former employee of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism Yekaterina, arrives in a small Swiss town. In the same hotel stops Grandmaster Alexey Goryunov, 20 years ago in the West, and the remaining lifetime hopelessly loved Yekaterina. His feelings have not changed, and he asked 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
• 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

References

• ЛУЧШАЯ МУЗЫКА К ФИЛЬМУ, Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences, retrieved 2010-01-01 . (Russian)

External links

• White King, Red Queen at the Internet Movie Database