Film
Perestroika
Russia · United States- Director
- Slava Tsukerman
- Year
- 2009
Top astrophysicist Sasha Greenberg has spent the past 17 years working in the United States. An invitation to speak at a Congress on Cosmology in his native Moscow brings him home for the first time to confront colleagues, and unanswered personal questions. As Russia undergoes perestroika, public and private lives are radically re-assessed and Sasha sees the social and sexual upheavals as a crisis
Top cast
Sam Robards
Alexander aka "Sasha" Greenberg
F. Murray Abraham
Professor Gross
Ally Sheedy
Helen
Jicky Schnee
Jill
Valery Afanasyev
Mariya Andreeva
Anatoliy Goryachev
Aleksandr Pozharov
Andrey Sergeev
Oksana Stashenko
Natasha
Stepan Lapshin
young Listov
Stanislav Belyaev
Sasha Age 17
Viktor Cherepanov
Head of Film Studio
Mikhail Rayvicher
Sasha as a Schoolboy
Viktor Udochkin
University Dean
Elena Vassina
Soviet Emigration Official
Ekaterina Kuzminskaya
Soviet Marriage Office Clerk
Alexander Alaev
Russian Passport Controller
Directed by
Slava Tsukerman
Written by
Slava Tsukerman
Produced by
Anna Katchko, Slava Tsukerman, Dan Cohen, Nina V. Kerova