The Connection
5.7
“Adultery is a game for two.”
Ilya lives in Moscow; Nina lives in St. Petersburg. Ilya has a beautiful wife and a daughter; Nina's husband is an artist, and they have a young son. Nina occasionally travels to Moscow to see her partners in the publishing industry. Ilya sometimes comes to St. Petersburg on business. But more often they are in the train between St. Petersburg and Moscow just to see each other. Because they have an affair.
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Cast
45 people
Anna Mikhalkova
Nina
Known for
The Icebreaker
The Inhabited Island
Mikhail Porechenkov
Ilya
Known for
9th Company
Vamps
Alexey Uchitel
Also in
Виктор Цой. Легенда о последнем герое
Cinema 3.0
Avdotya Smirnova
Known for
Me Too
Anastasia Rapoport
Masha
Also in
The Casket of Maria Medici
Do Not Shoot at White Swans
Dmitriy Shevchenko
Nikita
Known for
Locust
Shadowboxing
Nastya Seglia
Masha
Leonid Yarmolnik
Monia
Known for
Hard to Be a God
Night Guards
Irina Rozanova
Tania
Known for
The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment
Hipsters
Kirill Poluhin
Known for
Better Than Us
Method
Musya Shapovalova
Kuzma
Natalya Rudnaya
Also in
Autumn
The Tsar's Bride
Avdotya Smirnova Director · Sergey Machilsky Cinematographer Elena Andreeva Editor
Worldwide gross $100K · First release June 29, 2006 · Produced in Russia
Box office
Worldwide gross
$99,502
Production
Rock Films
Production
Studio Rock
Production
Russia
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Languages
Original title
Связь
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · June 29, 2006
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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