To See Paris and Die (1992)

In Russia in the late 1960s Elena will do anything to see that her son Yuri succeeds as a pianist she longs for him to win a competition that will send him to Paris To ensure his success she denies her love for an iconoclastic painter for whom she models prostitutes herself to a Party figure encourages her son to break with his true love because the girl is a Jew and in general behaves in paranoid ways believing for example that a new lodger Evgeny is a KGB spy She also has her own family secrets which she will go to any length to keep her son from learning