Doc "My Perestroika"
My Perestroika is an intimate look at the last generation of Soviet children.
5 classmates go from living sheltered childhoods to experiencing the hopes of Gorbachev’s reforms and the confusion of the USSR’s dissolution, to searching for their places in today’s Moscow.
With candor and humor, the punk rocker, single mother, entrepreneur and married teachers paint a picture of the challenges, dreams and disappointments of those raised behind the Iron Curtain.
Through first-person testimony, vérité footage and vintage home movies, this beautifully crafted documentary reveals a Russia rarely seen on film.
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A co-production of Red Square Productions/Bungalow Town Productions and ITVS International in association with American Documentary | POV. (90 minutes)
PBS Broadcast: June 28, 2011
Online: June 29 through August 28, 2011
http://www.pbs.org/pov/myperestroika/index.php