The Lover
Oct 24 2002
•2h 36m
•Drama, Romance
This is a remarkably subtle film–a character study that focuses on Mitya’s attempts to cope with each new startling phase of discovery. At first he mourns for his dead wife, but then he discovers that he didn’t really know her.
Cast
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Oleg Yankovskiy
Дмитрий Чарышев
Sergey Garmash
Иван
Vera Voronkova
Вера
Valeriy Prokhorov
кондуктор
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