95 minute running time … stars Tatiana Samoilova, who is beautiful, she must have some Central Asian blood, no, I see now that her mother was Jewish … there is a lot of heavy-handed propaganda from the Soviet era, but it’s really well shot and well made, I can see why it won the Palm d’Or, though I wouldn’t give it a green-go. Farr recommended it.

You have your whole life before you, Veronika.