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Despite the Falling Snow (2016)

Despite the Falling Snow (2016)

PG-13 94 minutes EN Drama , Romance , Thriller
You can betray your country but not your heart.
New York, 1961. Alexander Ivanov, a high-ranked Soviet bureaucrat, reluctantly defects to the West while is part of a diplomatic mission, feeling the grief of being unable to know the fate of his wife Katya, whom he has had to leave behind in Moscow. Only many years later, in 1991, he will finally find out the truth when his niece Lauren travels to Moscow to participate in a painting exhibition.
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Rebecca Ferguson
Katya Grinkova / Lauren Grinkova
Sam Reid
Young Alexander Ivanov
Charles Dance
Old Alexander Ivanov
Antje Traue
Marina Rinskaya
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Young Misha Ardonov
Anthony Stewart Head
Old Misha Ardonov
Ben Batt
Oleg

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Director of Photography
Art Direction
Costume Design
Art Department Coordinator
Art Department Assistant
Art Department Assistant
Special Effects Coordinator
Production companies: Enlightenment Productions, Falling Snow, SK Enlightenment
Production countries: Canada, United Kingdom

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PG-13 (Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. Films given this rating may contain sexual content, brief or partial nudity, some strong language and innuendo, humor, mature themes, political themes, terror and/or intense action violence. However, bloodshed is rarely present. This is the minimum rating at which drug content is present.)

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