Goodbye, USSR! Memories of Big Brother

Film Info

2022 | 52 min. Director: Henrike Sandner

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LOOKSfilm

Brandenburger Straße 28
04347 Leipzig https://looks.film

Goodbye, USSR! Memories of Big Brother

Synopsis

For more than 30 years now, the Soviet Union has been consigned to the history books. Yet, many Russians long for the 'good old days'. Soviet nostalgia is very real. But how can we approach the complex history of this once mighty empire? Along her own family’s story, filmmaker Henrike Sandner - born in 1971 in Dresden in socialist East Germany - episodically traces the journey of the USSR, from 1917 to 1991, and compares different perspectives and realities. Personal memories contrast with 'official' news reports and archive footage from both sides of the Iron Curtain.