''Baltic Tango'' (russian: Холодное танго, Holodnoe Tango) is a Russian military-historical drama film from 2017 directed and written by

Pavel Chukhray Pavel Grigoryevich Chukhray (russian: Па́вел Григо́рьевич Чухра́й; Bykovo, Moscow Oblast, October 14, 1946) is a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. He is the son of the prominent Russian film director ...

, based on the novel "Sell your mother" by Efraim Sevela. ''Baltic Tango'' is the first work of

after a ten — year break. The film stars

Yulia Peresild Yulia Sergeevna Peresild (russian: Юлия Сергеевна Пересильд; born 5 September 1984) is a Russian stage and film actress. She is the first professional actress to act in outer space after her spaceflight to the ISS in Octobe ...

, Rinal Mukhametov,

Sergei Garmash Sergei Leonidovich Garmash (russian: Серге́й Леони́дович Гарма́ш; born 1 September 1958) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor. He is a People's Artist of Russia. In 2013 he was a member of the jury at the 35th Mosc ...

. The film was released on June 22, 2017, on The Day of Remembrance and Sorrow (the 76th anniversary of the beginning of the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

)

Plot

The film begins in the German occupation Lithuania in the 1941. Max is a boy from Jewish ghetto, his mother and younger sister were murdered by the Nazis at the beginning of the war. Laima is a Lithuanian, she is a daughter of charcoal burner, who during the war served in the fascist Sonderkommando. The two fall in love, but it is vary difficult for them to understand each other, and it is even more difficult to remain decent people in such historical conditions and political situation. "Baltic Tango" it is a love drama, a kind of story about Romeo and Juliet in the tragic circumstances of the 1940s of the XX century.

Cast

Rinal Mukhametov Rinal Albertovitch Mukhametov (russian: Риналь Альбертович Мухаметов, tt-Cyrl, Ринәл Альберт улы Мөхәммәтов; born August 21, 1989) is a Russian actor, of Volga Tatar origin. Early life Rinal Mu ...

as Max * Elisey Nikandrov as young Max *

as Laima * Asya Gromova as young Laima *

as Grigory Ivanovich Taratuta * Monika Santaro as Ruta, mother of Max and Lia * Lera Tkacheva as Lia, Max and Lima daughter * Andrius Bialobrzeskis as Vincas, Lima's father * Maria Malinovskaya as Lima's mother * Andrews Daryala * Anna Kotova * Artur Beschastny

References

{{war-drama-film-stub 2017 war drama films 2017 films Films about the Soviet Union in the Stalin era Films set in Lithuania Films set in the 1940s Russian war drama films 2010s Russian-language films Russian World War II films