11 Mar 2009
Hilde
A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.
My Grandmother Fanny Kaplan
Historical truth is composed of the silence of the dead
1917, the Crimea. Fanny Kaplan is blind and out of prison. She starts an affair with her doctor, Dmitriy Ilyich Ulyanov. which ends unexpectedly when she runs into her first lover: the terrorist who she went to prison for and who is now in the Russian secret police. Soon after, she is accused of an assassination attempt on Dimitry's brother: Vladimir Ulyanov Lenin.
Top Billed Cast
Kateryna Molchanova Fanny Kaplan
Иван Бровин Viktor Garskiy
Наталья Никуленко Надія Крупська
Алексей Девотченко Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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