Despite the Falling Snow
2016 · Movie · PG-13 · 94 min · ★ 5.6 · 21% critics
In the early 1960s, a Soviet official defects during a New York diplomatic trip, leaving behind a spouse in Moscow and years of uncertainty. Decades later, a family member’s trip to a Moscow art exhibition reopens old questions, connecting personal loss with Cold War tensions across shifting eras.
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Details
- Years
- 2016
- Release date
- 2016-01-29
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Critic score
- 21/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.6/10 (100 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a romance-tinged Cold War mystery that moves between time periods and leans on emotional fallout; Not for you if you dislike slow stretches or tangled plots like Vantage Point.
Pros: Cold War intrigue; romantic stakes; memorable art centerpiece | Cons: slow pacing at times; convoluted subplots; loose ends linger
Themes
- sacrifice
- politics
- spy
- cold war
- soviet union
- love
- defection
- moscow, russia
- woman director
- 1960s
- 1990s
- female painter
- +1 more
Cast & crew
Rebecca Ferguson
as Katya Grinkova / Lauren Grinkova
Sam Reid
as Young Alexander Ivanov
Charles Dance
as Old Alexander Ivanov
Antje Traue
as Marina Rinskaya
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
as Young Misha Ardonov
Anthony Stewart Head
as Old Misha Ardonov
Thure Lindhardt
as Dimtri
Ben Batt
as Oleg
Jelena Gavrilović
as Svetlana
Amy Nuttall
as Maya
Directed by Shamim Sarif