WINDOW TO PARIS
(Okno v Pariz)
Year: 1993
Country:
Russia
Run Time:
90 minutes
In a scruffy St. Petersburg apartment an old women has died. Or has she? Her cat is still there, and appears to be well fed. A curious neighbor, Tchiyov, investigates one night, following the cat into an old wardrobe and out a fire escape into an unfamiliar night. With a touch of magic surrealism, Tchiyov has passed from drab post-communist Russia to the vivid street of Paris! Whimsical and light as air, WINDOW TO PARIS is a comedy of capitalism, an enchanting fantasy in which Tchiyov's neighbors embark on a frenzied shopping spree, going through the magical window and returning with free goodies from the West-from pate to a car, which is somehow hoisted into the living room. Tchiyov even develops a love interest in Paris, an artist named Nicole, who finds herself in a curious predicament. You see, the window is set to close on a certain date, a deadline which spurs everyone into bizarre action. Charming and wryly political, WINDOW TO PARIS layers humor over social commentary-comic therapy for the stark reality of a Russia in slow decay.
In Russian with English subititles.
Screenplay
Yuri Mamin, Arkadi Tigai
Director
Yuri Mamin
Producer
Guy Seligmann, Laverenti Aimrachvili
Cinematography
Sergei Nekresov, Anatoli Lapchov
Editing
Olga Andrianova
Principal Cast
Agnes Soral, Sergei Dontsov, Viktor Mikhaliov, Nina Oussatova
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