Despite the Falling Snow
You can betray your country but not your heart.
New York, 1961. Alexander Ivanov, a high-ranked Soviet bureaucrat, reluctantly defects to the West while is part of a diplomatic mission, feeling the grief of being unable to know the fate of his wife Katya, whom he has had to leave behind in Moscow. Only many years later, in 1991, he will finally find out the truth when his niece Lauren travels to Moscow to participate in a painting exhibition.
- Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
- Studio: Enlightenment Productions, Falling Snow, SK Enlightenment
- Keyword: sacrifice, communist, politics, spy, cold war, soviet union, love, defection, moscow, russia, woman director, 1960s, 1990s, female painter, painting exhibition
- Cast: Rebecca Ferguson, Sam Reid, Charles Dance, Antje Traue, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Anthony Stewart Head