Music for December

Music for December (Музыка для декабря, translit. Muzyka dlya dekabrya) is a 1995 Russian drama film directed by Ivan Dykhovichny. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.

Plot
Alexander Larin, a successful Leningrad artist, an emigrant of the last wave, returns to his homeland and meets his former lover Anna and her daughter Masha. What will end the journey to a country that no longer exists? And love, and the former itself, too. The past overtakes the hero as retribution.

Cast

 * Gregory Hlady as Larin
 * Viktor Bychkov as cyclist
 * Nikolai Chindyajkin as Samoilov
 * Dmitry Dykhovichny as Dima
 * Sergei Kalvarsky as advertising director
 * Andrei Kostyukevich as Rastorguev
 * Irina Osnovina as pedicurist
 * Irina Piganova as Lera
 * Margarita Romanova as Secretary
 * Yelena Safonova as Anna Bersenyova
 * Vadim Stepantsov as Plotnikov
 * Natalya Zhukova as Masha

Awards

 * Nika Award for the best sound engineer's work (Ekaterina Popova)