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Original title

Maschenka

Year

1987

Running time

103 min.

Country

Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Director

John Goldschmidt

Screenwriter

John Mortimer. Novel: Vladimir Nabokov

Cast

Music

Nikolaus Glowna

Cinematography

Wolfgang Treu

Producer

Co-production Germany - West Germany (FRG)-Germany-United Kingdom-France-Finland;

Genre

Romance. Drama

Movie Groups

Vladimir Nabokov Adaptations

Synopsis

The story, said to be semi-autobiographical, is of Lev Glebovich Ganin (Elwes), a Russian émigré who has been displaced by the Russian Revolution. Now living in a boarding house in Berlin, Ganin discovers that his long-lost first love, Maschenka (Brook) is the wife of the rather unappealing boarder next door, Alfyrov (Coy), and that and she is on her way to rejoin her husband. This knowledge, combined with the incessant recitation of his memories of old Russia by another boarder, Podtyagin (Jones), send him into a state of reverie. Ganin contrives a complex scheme in order to reunite with Maschenka, who he believes still loves him.

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Maschenka

1987

John Goldschmidt