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My Perestroika

OT: My Perestroika

Robin Hessman // USA, United Kingdom, Russian Federation, 2010
Documentary Feature // FF2011
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Story

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 firstperson testimony, revealing verité footage, and vintage home movies, Hessman, who at 18 went to live in Moscow to study filmmaking, reveals a 33 rarely ever seen on film, where people are frank about their lives and forthcoming about their country.

Director

Robin Hessman, (*1973) an American with a passion for 33 graduated in film directing in Moscow. She received an Oscar ® for a student short and has her own production company.

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My Perestroika

Documentary Feature

Russian

Agenda 11//FF2011


USA, United Kingdom, Russian Federation

2010

87 min

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Robin Hessman

Robin Hessman, Rachel Wexler

Robin Hessman

Alla Kovgan, Garret Savage

Lev (Ljova) Zhurbin

Red Square Productions | 603 7th Street, 2nd floor | 11215 Brooklyn | USA | Phone: +1 617 653 6169 | Email: robin@redsquareproductions.org

Red Square Productions; Bungalow Town Productions; ITVS International

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