Muscovite Lives, Entangled in History

[Muzh]

Russian history has long been dominated by big personalities — Mr. Putin, the prime minister and former president, is just the latest — but this film largely shuns them, choosing instead to examine how ordinary people have endured the turmoil of recent decades. “My Perestroika,” which opens Wednesday at the IFC Center in New York before a national release, offers a chance to eavesdrop on kitchen table conversations as Russians ponder what has become of their world.

Interviews with the five subjects are twinned with images from home movies, newsreels and party propaganda, an arresting visual scrapbook of the Soviet period.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/movies/robin-hessmans-my-perestroika-about-post-soviet-life.html?ref=europe

And here's the trailer

http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/460755/My-Perestroika/trailers?ref=movies

[Chicagoguy]

Sounds VERY interesting.

[Shostakovich]

A similar film was made in 2007 called 'Perestroika' and tells the story of a Russian physicist that left in '84 and came back 17 years later.  It's available on Netflix currently.

'My Perestroika' probably will not get wide distribution in the theaters but you can reserve it on Netflix now.

[mendeleyev]

Thanks for the heads up, Muzh!