Saturday Night Movie: My Perestroika
I’ve seen this twice, and actually interviewed the director when it came out. She was American, and in fact was a red diaper baby, she said. BUT—this film is everything a documentary should be.
Two of the main characters are a married couple, both history teachers. After the dissolution of the USSR, they begin to learn more and more of the true history themselves, and then are on their own about what to teach.
I hope you enjoy it.
What an engaging and thought provoking film! I watched about half so far. I find it highly ironic that the high school teacher in Russia is examining in depth with his students the failures of confiscation of property and the mass murder sod displaced people. I’m not sure that is taught in the US public schools anymore. These people are so genuine and human-- and to be introduced to folk who live in one place and one community with friends from childhood. A fascinating look at lives that seem so parallel with my own in so many ways. Thank you Ceila!
Oh. And the turtle needs a log🥹.
Thank you, Ms. Farber. This is the most genuine depiction of Russia and the Russian people I've come across since Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. (And Tolstoy was an elitist.) Perhaps Hedrick Smith's book on Russian society way back during the Cold War comes close but this is really good.https://www.amazon.com/Russians-Hedrick-Smith/dp/0812905210