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.

Cast

Rebecca Ferguson

Katya Grinkova / Lauren Grinkova

Sam Reid

Young Alexander Ivanov

Charles Dance

Old Alexander Ivanov

Antje Traue

Marina Rinskaya

Oliver Jackson-Cohen

Young Misha Ardonov

Anthony Stewart Head

Old Misha Ardonov

Thure Lindhardt

Dimtri

Ben Batt

Oleg

Jelena Gavrilović

Svetlana

Amy Nuttall

Maya

Imogen Daines

Jackie

Miloš Timotijević