Release Date: Jan 24, 2010
Running Time: 88 minutes
Country: Russian Federation
Language: Russian

synopsis

An intimate epic about the extraordinary lives of this last Soviet generation, Robin Hessman’s feature documentary debut tells the stories of five Moscow schoolmates who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain, witnessed the joy and confusion of glasnost, and reached adulthood right as the world changed around them. Through candid first-person testimony, revealing vérité footage and vintage home movies, Hessman reveals a Russia rarely seen on film, where people are frank about their lives and forthcoming about their country.