Music for December

Music for December is a 1995 Russian drama film directed by Ivan Dykhovichny. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.

Plot

Alexander Larin, a successful Leningrad artist, an emigrant of the last wave, returns to his homeland and meets his former lover Anna and her daughter Masha. What will end the journey to a country that no longer exists? And love, and the former itself, too. The past overtakes the hero as retribution.

Cast

Gregory Hlady as Larin
Viktor Bychkov as cyclist
Nikolai Chindyajkin as Samoilov
Dmitry Dykhovichny as Dima
Sergei Kalvarsky as advertising director
Andrei Kostyukevich as Rastorguev
Irina Osnovina as pedicurist
Irina Piganova as Lera
Margarita Romanova as Secretary
Yelena Safonova as Anna Bersenyova
Vadim Stepantsov as Plotnikov
Natalya Zhukova as Masha

Awards

Nika Award for the best sound engineer's work