Title:Assa Year:1987 Genre:Crime / Drama / History Language:Russian / French Country:Soviet Union Director:Sergey Solovyov Writer:Sergey Livnev / Sergey Solovyov Actors:Natan Eidelman / Anatoly Slivnikov / German Shorr Plot:ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in 1980. A young musician (Bananan) falls for a mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves a 19th Century assassination plot.