Angel Georgiev

Professeure de français, Claire vit avec Andreï, un journaliste russe exilé à Paris. Le 7 octobre 2006, jour anniversaire de Poutine, la reporter Anna Politkovskaïa est assassinée dans l'entrée de son immeuble à Moscou. Andreï, qui était l’un de ses amis, se rend aux obsèques. Mais bientôt, son téléphone ne répond plus. La peur au ventre, Claire s'envole pour Moscou à sa recherche… Très documentée, cette fiction rend hommage à la reporter russe, l'une des rares à avoir dénoncé les exactions commises en Tchétchénie, mais aussi à tous ceux qui risquent leur vie dans la Russie de Poutine, au nom de la liberté d'expression. Au fil d'une enquête qui entraîne Claire (vibrante Mélanie Doutey) jusqu'à Grozny, c'est toute l'âpre complexité de la Russie d’aujourd’hui que révèle le film, tourné en Bulgarie et à Moscou.

The charming young man Ran is a director in a school in his hometown. His classmate Mariana is his wife. At the first glance, things are like, as they ought to be. In the world of untold words and timid gestures something important is missing - the understanding. He cannot succumb to the routine, hypocrisy and egoism. Ran sees every moment of his everyday life as a part of everlasting human strive for beauty and perfection, which brings him many troubles and causes conflicts with his colleagues and his friends. The intrigues and betrayal of a part of his colleagues during the visitation of a school inspector make him lose his patience. On a public place, he slaps the inspector who destroys the human dignity of the others. There is a court against Ran. He must leave the school. He leaves his wife Mariana who does not understand him. These misfortunes do not stop his search for real values, real work, real love, in another place, another town, another school.