Ruf

Ruf (1989) is a historical drama by Valery Akhadov you can watch online on iFILM. French screen legend Annie Girardot leads, alongside Irina Muravyova and Alexei Petrenko.

In the 1930s, pianist Marie Lamballe-Bulatova marries a Soviet diplomat and follows him east. What waits there is his arrest, the camps, and years erased from a life. After her release she never goes back to France — she settles in Novosibirsk, in the same snows that took everything from her. Years later her Moscow niece Masha tracks her down, and two women from different worlds try to piece one broken story back together.

This Soviet-German co-production rests on Girardot, whose quiet, unforced performance gives a story about memory and forgiveness more weight than any melodrama could. One for viewers who love intimate cinema about the twentieth century and human endurance. Stream Ruf (1989) online on iFILM.