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...Russians took it hard. This, succinctly, from the tight-lipped Arkaev: "We were expecting gold." But now he didn't have it - in the team competition, at least - and so he reset his sights on the individual all-around finals. Alexei Nemov, 24, the anchor of the Russian team, was the most decorated gymnast in Atlanta when he took home six medals. But he did not get the title of best male gymnast that year - it went China's Li Xiaoshuang. Like Khorkina, the glamorous Nemov was here for his final Olympics, but he almost didn't make...
...Sept. 2 Galya gave Nemov another reason to win. While he was training in Adelaide, his son Alexei was born in Moscow. Nemov had not even seen a photo of the baby when he took the floor and whirled from apparatus to apparatus, holding his first place lead throughout and finally taking the gold by a whisper from China's Yang Wei. "A lot of things helped me, but what was important is that now I know I have a son," he said afterward...
...Alexei, played by Oleg Menshikov (Prisoner of the Mountains, Burnt by the Sun) leaves France to start a new life in Russia, the country where he was born, with his wife Marie and son Serioja. It doesn't take long for Alexei and Marie to realize they have made a huge mistake. Upon arriving in Russia, in a scene reminiscent of Hitler's concentration camps, Alexei and Marie watch as soldiers separate family members and then shoot a boy that attempts to rejoin his father. Events take a turn for the worse when a KGB officer accuses Marie of being...
...Alexei, in the meantime, adapts to the regime by joining the Communist Party and becomes romantically involved with a woman that shares their apartment. Marie eventually finds an ally in Sacha, a young man whose grandmother was arrested and killed after a neighbor overheard her speaking French with Marie and subsequently denounced her to the secret police...
...Wargnier's film is unrelentingly grim and one-dimensional. Millions of Russians managed to lead interesting and productive lives and even find happiness under Stalin's regime. By portraying Alexei's submission to the Party as a sacrifice he secretly undergoes to help Marie escape, Wargnier offers little more than a commentary on the brutality and rigidity of the Soviet Union. But we can't help wondering about brighter moments in the lives of Wargnier's protagonists...