Russian Lessons
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Duration 0 min
Synopsis
The film starts as a journey by the two director/protagonists, Olga and Andrei, one on each side of the frontline during the last year's Russian-Georgian war. A non-conventional deeply personal feature documentary that firmly establishes emotional contact with the audiences by depicting human drama, before coming up with political conclusions. These emerge naturally and forcefully as the intercut double journey progresses. Importantly, the film puts the recent war in the context of the post-Soviet history which has managed to keep its darkest pages from the international public's attention, despite dozens of relevant UN resolutions and OSCE conventions. At the same time as Milosevic was earning the reputation as the biggest evil in the post-communist world, a perfectly comparable - but perhaps even more cruel - campaign of terror and ethnic cleansing was taking place in parts of Georgia.
The film starts as a journey by the two director/protagonists, Olga and Andrei, one on each side of the frontline during the last year's Russian-Georgian war. A non-conventional deeply personal feature documentary that firmly establishes emotional contact with the audiences by depicting human drama, before coming up with political conclusions. These emerge naturally and forcefully as the intercut double journey progresses. Importantly, the film puts the recent war in the context of the post-Soviet history which has managed to keep its darkest pages from the international public's attention, despite dozens of relevant UN resolutions and OSCE conventions. At the same time as Milosevic was earning the reputation as the biggest evil in the post-communist world, a perfectly comparable - but perhaps even more cruel - campaign of terror and ethnic cleansing was taking place in parts of Georgia.