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East-West re-unites director Régis Wargnier, actress Catherine Deneuve and composer Patrick Doyle, who previously worked together on the film Indochine, which won the Academy Award® as Best Foreign Language Film of 1992. Also starring Sandrine Bonnaire and Oleg Menshikov, East-West follows the dramatic fate of an exiled Russian family who return to the USSR after World War II, where their hopes for a new life are shattered by the fear, deceit and terror of the Stalin era. The film, which follows the family through the years as they wrestle with the choice of accepting their fate or trying to escape, was nominated for both the Academy Award® and Golden Globe as Best Foreign Language Film. The original soundtrack recording features pianist Emanuel Ax and soloist Anatoly Fokonov and the Bulgarian Mixed Choir. Composer Patrick Doyle was a consecutive Academy Award® nominee in 1995 and 1996 for his scores for Sense and Sensibility (SK 62258) and Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (SK 62857). After beginning his career in theater, Doyle made his film debut with the score for Kenneth Branagh's Henry V in 1989 and also scored Branagh's Dead Again, Much Ado About Nothing and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. His other film credits include Into the West, Carlito's Way, A Little Princess and Donnie Brasco.
In preparation for writing the score for East-West, Doyle visited the film's locations in Kiev and Sofia, to absorb the cultural differences that define the drama. "I've always had a great love and fascination for Slavic music," Doyle says of the challenge of composing the score for East-West, "and the prospect of working in this genre again with Régis on such a particularly fine script was irresistible. From the outset I was determined to try and do justice to this great musical heritage in endeavoring to tap into its soul and spirit. The struggle of cultures and peoples are inevitably reflected in their music and never more so than in Slavic music."
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