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Three Songs about Motherland
A Film by Marina Goldovskaya
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Three Songs about Motherland is included on the same DVD as One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich and In the Dark
THREE SONGS ABOUT MOTHERLAND depicts a dramatic collision between the past, the present, and the future in contemporary Russia by focusing on three different cities in this vast land.

In the far eastern city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, a still-living symbol of Soviet industrialization in the 1930s, older Russian citizens speak about their youth, when they felt part of something bigger than themselves: building "a city of communist dreams" in the middle of nowhere. Some cling to the promise of those glory days while others, express regret and disappointment at its ultimate failure.

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Then, the cosmopolitan city of Moscow bids farewell to Anna Politkovskaya, the fearless journalist and human rights activist who was assassinated for her political activity amid the chaotic power struggles of the post-Soviet nation, fighting to her death for a young Russian democracy.

Finally, residents of Khanty-Mansijsk, one of the main centers of Siberia's budding oil industry, speak about their beloved fairy tale-like town, where the communist dream has been swept away by new aspirations for a prosperous future.

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And what are they, today's aspirations? What is behind the fairy tale? Will the new "capitalist dream" come true, or will it turn out to be another illusion, another myth? In the words of the great Russian poet Fyodor Tyutchev, "We are not destined to foretell."

During the course of the film, three songs performed by contemporary singer Elena Kamburova serve as a leitmotif which unites these three separate stories into one cohesive whole: a frank and vibrant picture of Russia today.

"THREE SONGS ABOUT MOTHERLAND offers three interesting portraits of contemporary Russia." —Anthology Review Database

"A frank and, for the most part, realistic picture of Russia today after three decades of the glory age of industrialization." —The Russian Review

  

39 minutes / color
Russian
Release: 2010
Copyright: 2009
DVD Sale: $29.98

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Subject areas:
Cultural Studies, Eastern Europe, Russia, Sociology, US & Canadian Broadcast Rights



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