The Deluge

L'inondation

Russia, France

1994

99 Min

Color

1.66:1

French

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PROD Daniel Toscan du Plantier

SCR Jacques Baynac, Igor Minaiev, Bernard Stora, Yevgeni Zamyatin

CAST Isabelle Huppert, Boris Nevzorov, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Mariya Lipkina

ED Noëlle Boisson, Cristiana Tullio-Altan

PROD DES Ilya Murzin, Vladimir Murzin

Petrograd – 1920. Although Sophia and Trofim Ivanytch have been married a long time, she has never been able to bear him a child: he finds this unforgiveable. Desperately afraid of losing her husband, Sophia agrees to adopt an orphan : a thirteen-year-old girl. Years later, the adolescent becomes Trofim’s mistress. As the waters of the Neva break their banks ans flood the city, Sophia’s despair turns to hatred. She must get rid of this untruder to recover the man she loves… –uniFrance