The Heritage of Love

2016 Russian film

31 March 2016 (2016-03-31)

Running time

86 minutesCountryRussiaLanguageRussianBudget$7 million

The Heritage of Love (Russian: Герой, Geroy, "Hero") is a Russian romantic drama film inspired by a true story. It is set against the Russian Revolution and subsequent onset of civil war, as well as contemporary Paris. The film is directed by Yuriy Vasilev and written by Natalia Doroshkevich and Olga Pogodina-Kuzmina. The film stars Dima Bilan (in his first film role), Svetlana Ivanova, Aleksandr Adabashyan, Aleksandr Baluev, and Marat Basharov.

Plot

The film is set in 2016. Andrey Kulikov is a young machinist who is going to Paris to visit an old lady, and to buy the oldest Russian-made car, the Russo-Balt. While walking through Paris, Andrey sees a woman, Vera, and so starts the tale of two love stories, separated by three generations and one hundred years.

Later, when Andrey visits a cemetery he finds the grave of a young lady similar to the one he just met in Paris.

During his search to the past it becomes clear that Vera's and Andrey's fates are connected. His great-grandfather, Andrey Dolmatov, had been an officer in the White Army during the Russian Revolution and fell in love with Duchess Vera Chernisheva in the last days of the Russian Empire and in the Russian Civil War.

Cast

Dima Bilan as Officer and Nobleman Andrey Dolmatov / Andrey Kulikov
Svetlana Ivanova as Duchess Vera Chernisheva / Vera Yezerskaya
Aleksandr Adabashyan as Lev Chij
Aleksandr Baluev as Tereshchenko
Marat Basharov as Baron Ivan Karlovich von Liven
Aleksandr Golovin as Repnin
Jurgita Jurkute as Irina Chernisheva
Tatyana Lyutaeva as Duchess Chernisheva
Viktor Nemets as Yefim
Lilita Ozolina as Yelizaveta Yezerskaya von liven
Yulia Peresild as Masha Kulikova
Aleksandr Vasilev
Vladislav Vetrov as The Ducks
Petar Zekavica as Mikhailenko
Mikolas Vildjunas as General Kornilov
Yuri Vasilev as The priest

Production

Music

The musical score was composed by Eduard Artemyev, who has previously collaborated with Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov on numerous movies (At Home Among Strangers, An Unfinished Piece for a Player Piano, Burnt by the Sun, The Barber of Siberia, Sunstroke).