''La Piste du télégraphe'' () is a 1994 French

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

directed by

Liliane de Kermadec Liliane de Kermadec (6 October 1928 – 13 February 2020) was a Polish-French film director and screenwriter. She directed more than twenty films and documentaries between 1965 and 2016. Career Liliane de Kermadec began as a set photographe ...

. A 1927 period

road movie A road movie is a film genre in which the main characters leave home on a road trip, typically altering the perspective from their everyday lives. Road movies often depict travel in the hinterlands, with the films exploring the theme of alienatio ...

with minimal episodic plot, the film follows Russian-born Lisa Alling played by

Elena Safonova Yelena Vsevolodovna Safonova (russian: Еле́на Все́володовна Сафо́нова; born 14 June 1956 in Leningrad) is a former Soviet and a Russian actress. She is an Honored Artist of Russia (2011). She was made famous by the 198 ...

on foot from New York towards her homeland

Siberia Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a part of ...

, and her encounter with John played by

Christopher Chaplin Christopher James Chaplin (born 8 July 1962) is a Swiss-born English composer and actor. He is the youngest son of film comedian Charlie Chaplin and his fourth wife Oona O'Neill. Biography Christopher Chaplin was born on 8 July 1962 at Clin ...

. The film has music by French composer

Antoine Duhamel Antoine Duhamel (30 July 1925 – 11 September 2014) was a French composer, orchestra conductor and music teacher. Life and career Born in Valmondois in the Val-d'Oise département of France, Antoine Duhamel was one of the three sons of the Fre ...

Cast

as Lisa Alling *

as John * as Mike *

Mylène Demongeot Mylène Demongeot (born Marie-Hélène Demongeot; 29 September 1935 – 1 December 2022) was a French film, television and theatre actress and author with a career spanning seven decades and more than 100 credits in French, Italian, English an ...

as Muriel *

Miki Manojlović Predrag "Miki" Manojlović ( sr-cyr, Предраг "Мики" Манојловић; born 5 April 1950) is a Serbian actor, famous for his starring roles in some of the most important films of former Yugoslav cinema. Since the early 1990s, he su ...

as Carlo * Cong Shan as Shan * Sergey Shnyrev as the journalist * Jean-Yves Gautier as the pilot * Rémy Roubakha as Billy * Alexander Lykov as the vagabond * Wladimir Tsarev as Harvey * Aleksei Rodionov as Alastair * Alexandre Kalinski as David *

Alla Budnitskaya Alla Zinovievna Budnitskaya (russian: Алла Зиновьевна Будницкая; born 1937, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian actress of theater and cinema. Biography Born July 5, 1937, in the family of the builder Zinovy Lazarevich Budnits ...

as John's mother * Aleksandr Belyavsky as John's father * Olga Tchernov as Louise * Ludmilla Korik as Angela * Serguei Stegalov as Malcolm * Oleg Banikov as Doug * Alexandre Mazourienko as Tom *

Boris Bystrov Boris Yevgenievich Bystrov (russian: Борис Евгеньевич Быстров; born February 12, 1945) is a Soviet and Russian actor and voice actor. Biography In 1966, he graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre. After graduating, he worke ...

as Scotty * Oleg Miteen as Michael * Vladimir Chykov as George

References

External links

* 1994 films 1990s French-language films 1994 drama films Films directed by Liliane de Kermadec French drama films Films about hiking 1990s French films {{1990s-France-film-stub