| The Heritage of Love | |
| Director: | Yuriy Vasilev |
| Producer: | Elmira Ainulova Maria Juromskaya Natalia Doroshkevich |
| Starring: | Dima Bilan Svetlana Ivanova Aleksandr Adabashyan Aleksandr Baluev Marat Basharov Aleksandr Golovin Jurgita Jurkute Tatyana Lyutaeva Viktor Nemets Lilita Ozolina Yulia Peresild |
| Music: | Eduard Artemyev |
| Cinematography: | Ramunas Greicius |
| Distributor: | Cultural Solidarity Media |
| Runtime: | 86 minutes |
| Country: | Russia |
| Language: | Russian |
| Budget: | $7 million |
The Heritage of Love (Geroy, "Hero") is a Russian romantic drama film inspired by a true story. It is set against the Russian Revolution and subsequent onset of civil war, as well as contemporary Paris. The film is directed by Yuriy Vasilev and written by Natalia Doroshkevich and Olga Pogodina-Kuzmina. The film stars Dima Bilan (in his first film role), Svetlana Ivanova, Aleksandr Adabashyan, Aleksandr Baluev, and Marat Basharov.
The film is set in 2016. Andrey Kulikov is a young machinist who is going to Paris to visit an old lady, and to buy the oldest Russian-made car, the Russo-Balt. While walking through Paris, Andrey sees a woman, Vera, and so starts the tale of two love stories, separated by three generations and one hundred years.
Later, when Andrey visits a cemetery he finds the grave of a young lady similar to the one he just met in Paris.
During his search to the past it becomes clear that Vera's and Andrey's fates are connected. His great-grandfather, Andrey Dolmatov, had been an officer in the White Army during the Russian Revolution and fell in love with Duchess Vera Chernisheva in the last days of the Russian Empire and in the Russian Civil War.
The musical score was composed by Eduard Artemyev, who has previously collaborated with Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov on numerous movies (At Home Among Strangers, An Unfinished Piece for a Player Piano, Burnt by the Sun, The Barber of Siberia, Sunstroke).