The new trailer from acclaimed director Shamim Sarif’s forthcoming Despite the Falling Snow has arrived.
Adapted from her own 2004 novel Despite the Falling Snow follows Sarif’s previous films, the documentary The House of Tomorrow and the award-winning I Can’t Think Straight. The film takes place in Moscow and London, switching between Russia in the 1950s and forty years later, after the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the USSR.
Mission Impossible 5’s breakout star Rebecca Ferguson leads the film, which also stars Charles Dance, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Sam Reid, Anthony Head, Trudie Styler, and Thure Lindhardt. Sarif’s ongoing dissection of place and identity, of secrets and sacrifice, is given a stirring backdrop in the slow-changing world of Russia in the second half of the twentieth century.
A big draw for many with be the new song Now You Say You Love Me Again, written for the film by the wildly popular Ella Henderson.
The film is set for release on the 22nd of April here in the UK.
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Synopsis
In 1950s Moscow, communist Katya (Rebecca Ferguson) secretly spies for the Americans in the Cold War arms race. When she lands her biggest assignment, stealing secrets from rising government star Alexander (Sam Reid), the last thing she expects is to fall in love with him.
When Alexander unwittingly closes the net around his own wife, Katya decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to protect him… A sacrifice that is only discovered thirty years later by an older Alexander (Charles Dance).
