To See Paris and Die (movie)
Uvidet Parizh i Umeret- User score: 1.5
- Production country: Russia
- Producer: Aleksandr Proshkin
- Production companies: Ibrus, Mosfilm
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 6/6/1992
- Run time: 120 min.
Movie description
In Russia in the late 1960s, Elena will do anything to see that her son Yuri succeeds as a pianist: she longs for him to win a competition that will send him to Paris. To ensure his success, she denies her love for an iconoclastic painter for whom she models, prostitutes herself to a Party figure, encourages her son to break with his true love because the girl is a Jew, and, in general, behaves in paranoid ways, believing, for example, that a new lodger, Evgeny, is a KGB spy. She also has her own family secrets, which she will go to any length to keep her son from learning.
