Luna Park

Luna Park (Russian: Луна-парк; 1992) is a Franco-Russian produced film. The second feature film of Russian director Pavel Lungin, it depicts the story of a young antisemitic skinhead leader, Andrei Leonov (Andrei Gutin) who is forced to come to terms with the discovery that his father, Naoum Kheifitz (Oleg Borisov) is of Jewish ancestry . The film, of the chernukha (Russian: чернуха, roughly "black stuff"), genre, follows Andrei as he explores his heritage and the relationship he begins with his father. Luna Park was shown at the Toronto Film Festival on September 13, 1992, and was released in New York in January 1994. It was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. The composer Isaak Schwarz won a Nika Award from the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences for the film's music.