MY PERESTROIKA is an intimate and heartfelt portrait of the last generation of Soviet children brought up behind the Iron Curtain. Borya, Lyuba, Andrei, Olga and Ruslan were childhood classmates just coming of age when the USSR collapsed. Raised on communist ideals as children, the classmates must adjust to a post-Soviet reality as adults. Masterfully blending contemporary interviews with rare home movie footage from the ’70s and ’80s, along with official Soviet propaganda films that surrounded them at the time, the film paints a poignant and complex portrait of the challenges, dreams and disillusionments of this cross-over generation.

June 24 screening will include a post-screening conversation with filmmaker Robin Hessman moderated by NPR President Emeritus and longtime Washington Post Moscow Bureau Chief Kevin Klose.

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MY PERESTROIKA
Red Square Productions
Robin Hessman
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