The Stroll
Sep 20 2003
•2h 30m
•Drama, Romance
Today’s twenty-something Russians are the first generation in the country’s post-communist history to have grown up free. Their twenties are the age of freedom, of fast-changing events and intense emotions. Perhaps only at this age they can live a whole life in one day. A young girl and her two accident companions walk halfway around St.-Petersburg; they flirt and tease each other, and for ninety minutes they act out a real-time romantic drama. This stroll is full of laughter and tears against a backdrop of the hustle and bustle of the streets.
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Irina Pegova
Olya
Pavel Barshak
Aleksey
Evgeny Tsyganov
Pyotr
Evgeniy Grishkovec
Seva
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