Maschenka (1987)

Directors

John Goldschmidt

Cast

Cary Elwes, Freddie Jones, Irina Brook, Jean-Claude Brialy, Lena Stolze, Michael Gough

The story

The story, said by Nabokov to be semi-autobiographical, is of Lev Glebovich Ganin, a Russian émigré who has been displaced by the Russian Revolution. Now living in a boarding house in Berlin, Ganin discovers that his long-lost first love, Maschenka, is the wife of the rather unappealing boarder next door, Alfyrov, and that she is on her way to rejoin her husband. This knowledge, combined with the incessant recitation of his memories of old Russia by another boarder, Podtyagin, sends him into a state of reverie.

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