I just finished watching this Russian film. After viewing I went to imdb to learn more about it and was shocked to learn that it was made in 1988. It has the look and feel of something made much nearer the period that it depicts, 1940, the year before Germany invaded Russia. But then, a film such as this made back then would have landed the producer in the camps, pronto.
It portrays very well the impossibility of a state ideology to suppress the human spirit without painful consequences for all involved. It is English subtitled. A very good analysis of what the Communist regime did to the Russian people on the personal level of their interactions with family and friends.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that this film is a classic example of a society fully ponorized. One probably very similar to that under which Lobaczewski and his colleagues were forced to work. One where a citizen with valuable skills could be disappeared for simply stating, in private, an appreciation of poetry or art which was considered bourgeois.
It portrays very well the impossibility of a state ideology to suppress the human spirit without painful consequences for all involved. It is English subtitled. A very good analysis of what the Communist regime did to the Russian people on the personal level of their interactions with family and friends.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that this film is a classic example of a society fully ponorized. One probably very similar to that under which Lobaczewski and his colleagues were forced to work. One where a citizen with valuable skills could be disappeared for simply stating, in private, an appreciation of poetry or art which was considered bourgeois.
