Glasnost Film Festival: Against the Current & Wood Goblin
Running Time: 45 minutes
G 11-Adult
Michael Brainerd
- Los Angeles Times
G 11-Adult
Michael Brainerd
"There is probably no better forum for examining the radical changes on the Soviet Union and its people."
- Los Angeles Times
The Glasnost Film Festival is a 12-video collection featuring 22 Soviet documentary films produced in the "Glasnost Era." Many of the films remain definitive and timeless documents of previously unexplored aspects of Soviet history and culture. All were produced originally on 35mm film and are subtitled in English.
Against the Current, 27 min.
A film about ecological crime and
how the residents of Kirishi protest a local chemical plant.
The
Wood Goblin, 17 min.
For 15 years a former WW II tank commander
lived alone in the woods
after a smear campaign removed him from his Communist party position.