Documentary film: My Perestroika

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Date/Time:Wednesday, 09 Nov 2011 at 7:00 pm
Location:101 Carver Hall
Cost:Free
Contact:Anna Prisacari
Phone:515-294-8081
Channel:Student Union Board
Categories:Arts, performances Diversity
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The screening of this 2010 film is part of International Week events on campus. After the film there will be a discussion with Russians who grew up in the former U.S.S.R.

My Perestroika follows five typical Russians living in momentous times -- starting with their sheltered Soviet childhood, continuing to the collapse of the Soviet Union while they were teenagers, to the continually changing political landscape of post-Soviet Russia. Together, these childhood classmates reveal to us what it was like to be raised behind the Iron Curtain.

The film is in Russian, with English subtitles. Running time: 1 hour 27 minutes.

March 22, 2011, film review in the New York Times.