My Soviet Pen-Friend
Director Gábor zsigmond Papp
Countries Hungary
Duration 66 min
Synopsis
This story started thirty years ago. I was a seventh grader in the January of 1980 when I got a Soviet pen-friend. Our ru teacher handed out some envelopes with Cyrillic writing on them saying that from that those were our pen-pals. I was lucky because mine was a girl from Moscow. Her name was Julia Lukyanova. We corresponded with each other for three years and though we never met in person, I have kept all her letters. And now I’m travelling to Moscow, because I have decided to find her and make a film about our childhood during the socialist regime.
This story started thirty years ago. I was a seventh grader in the January of 1980 when I got a Soviet pen-friend. Our ru teacher handed out some envelopes with Cyrillic writing on them saying that from that those were our pen-pals. I was lucky because mine was a girl from Moscow. Her name was Julia Lukyanova. We corresponded with each other for three years and though we never met in person, I have kept all her letters. And now I’m travelling to Moscow, because I have decided to find her and make a film about our childhood during the socialist regime.