Länteen itä&# was released in the year 1999。Länteen itä&# is also called as Est - Ouest, Este/Oeste, Восток-Запад, Изток - Запад, East-West, Est-Ouest - Eine Liebe in Rußland, Est-ovest - Amore-libertà。

June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step. By chance, she meets a touring French actress and pleads for help. She also takes a young swimmer under her wing, and several years later, he makes a bold attempt to escape. Meanwhile, the KGB is suspicious, and hope for freedom is dim. Patience, her husband's self control, and her good looks may be their only assets.

Länteen itä&# actors and actresses include Catherine Deneuve, Sandrine Bonnaire。