Deuxième prix au concours des scénarios The Harley-Merrill International Screening Competition aux USA, 1997
Prix du meilleur scénario à Milan, 2000
Grand Prix du festival "Kinotavr" à Sotchi, 2000
Plot synopsis
The film shows Bunin as a drinking egotist wholly preoccupied by his young mistress, neglecting his wife at his south of France villa and sent into a decline by the departure of his lover. He abandons his writing and takes up instead with a local woman…