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MY PERESTROIKA DVD Release Party

What!?  Did you miss MY PERESTROIKA when it screened at New Directors/New Films, Sundance or when it ran theatrically at that theater near you?  Now's your opportunity to own a copy of this award winning documentary by filmmaker Robin Hessman!

Join Filmwax & The Kings County Cinema Society to celebrate the arrival of the DVD.  We are going to screen special bonus features off the DVD throughout the evening.  Good booze, pool table, great friends.

SYNOPSIS: MY PERESTROIKA follows 5 ordinary Russians living in extraordinary times – from their sheltered Soviet childhood, to the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years, to the constantly shifting political landscape of post-Soviet Russia.

In this film, there are no “talking head” historians, no expert witnesses, no omniscient narrator telling viewers how to interpret events. Instead, Borya, Lyuba, Andrei, Olga and Ruslan share their personal stories. They were the last generation of Soviet children brought up behind the Iron Curtain. They take us on a journey through their Soviet childhoods, their youth during the country’s huge changes of Perestroika, and let us into their present-day lives.

The film interweaves their contemporary world with rare home movie footage from the 1970s and ‘80s in the USSR, along with official Soviet propaganda films that surrounded them at the time. Their memories and opinions sometimes complement each other and sometimes contradict each other, but together they paint a complex picture of the challenges, dreams, and disillusionment of this generation in Moscow today.

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