Desc: Assa: Directed by Sergey Solovyov. With Natan Eidelman, Anatoly Slivnikov, German Shorr, Ilya Ivanov. ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot.