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Soviet Union: changing times
- Title
- Soviet Union: changing times [motion picture] / Churchill Films with Educators for Social Responsibility ; produced by Ed Schuman.
- Publication
- Los Angeles : Churchill, 1989.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Moving image | By appointment only | Y M16 4218 S | Offsite |
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- Additional Authors
- Schuman, Edward.
- Description
- 1 film reel (22 min.) : sd., col.; 16 mm.
- Summary
- A rock concert, indicative of the Soviet Union's newly-instituted policy of glasnost, brackets this documentary centering on Moscow teenager Alec Mihailantz. Alec, an aficionado of heavy metal music, is seen in physics, English and literature classes at school and at home with his parents, a doctor and an editor of a law journal. In voiceover narration, the teenager comments on the new styles, ideas and freedoms which are rapidly changing life in the Soviet Union. Despite the loosening of certain strictures, some persist. Alec is required to obtain an identity card or city passport which enables the government to track his movements; a challenge to a teacher's veracity results in a phone call to his father. Outlining his country's tumultuous past and the possible fragmentation of the Soviet Union's fifteen republics, Alec conveys guarded optimism regarding the future.
- Subjects
- Credits (note)
- Producer, director, writer, Ed Schuman; photography, Arkady Edidovich; music, Peter Davison.
- Title
- Soviet Union: changing times [motion picture] / Churchill Films with Educators for Social Responsibility ; produced by Ed Schuman.
- Imprint
- Los Angeles : Churchill, 1989.
- Credits
- Producer, director, writer, Ed Schuman; photography, Arkady Edidovich; music, Peter Davison.
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- Added Author
- Schuman, Edward.
- Branch Call Number
- M16 4218 S