Melina Mercouri offers a bravura performance in this adaptation of novelist Romain Gary's memoir about his Russian actress mother. Romain at 25: Assaf Dayan. Mosjoukine: Perlo Vita (the pseudonym for Jules Dassin, who also wrote and directed). Romain at 15: Didier Haudepin. Aniela: Despo. Igorevitch: Jean Martin. Filmed in Nice, Paris and Leningrad.