The Flood (1994 film)

The Flood (French: L’Inondation) is a 1994 French-Russian crime film directed by Igor Minaiev and starring Isabelle Huppert.[1] It is based on the 1929 short story Navodneniye by Yevgeny Zamyatin. It was screened at the Locarno Festival in 1994.[2]

The Flood
Film poster
Directed byIgor Minaiev
Produced byJérôme Paillard
Daniel Toscan du Plantier
Written byIgor Minaiev
Jacques Baynac
Bernard Stora
StarringIsabelle Huppert
CinematographyVladimir Pankov
Release date
  • August 1994 (1994-08)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryFrance
Russia
LanguageFrench

Plot

The film takes place in Petrograd in the 1920s. Sofia (Isabelle Huppert) dreams of becoming a mother, hoping that with the birth of a child, husband Trofim (Boris Nevzorov) will not leave her. However, the woman can not conceive for a long time. One day a young neighbor, Ganka, who was left an orphan, appears in the couple's home. She begins to cohabit with Trofim, and his interest for his wife is completely lost. Taking advantage of a flood which came to pass, Sofia gets rid of her rival. Everyone believes that Ganka ran away from home. Meanwhile, Sofia is pregnant, and the relations of the spouses are improving. After giving birth to her daughter and during a fever, she tells how she killed Ganka with an ax.

Cast

See also
  • Isabelle Huppert on screen and stage

References
  1. Mancuso, Anne. "NY Times: The Flood". NY Times. Retrieved 29 May 2010.
  2. "L'INONDATION". Locarno Festival.


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