THEY CHOSE FREEDOM and NEMTSOV, TWO DOCUMENTARIES BY VLADIMIR KARA-MURZA Jr., FOLLOWED BY Q&A. Oct. 26,
4:15-7:45 pm, B126, HW (with Institute of Modern Russia).
The first film, They Chose Freedom (2005; in 4 parts) tells the story of the Soviet dissident movement from its "awakening" in the late 1950s to Perestroika and the 1990s to the first years of Putin's presidency, when human rights yet again came under attack in a country ruled by a former KGB officer. It features a constellation of Russian dissidents (Elena Bonner, Vladimir Bukovsky, Vladimir Dremliuga, Aleksandr Esenin-Vol'pin, Viktor Fainberg, Natalia Gorbanevskaya, Naum Korzhavin, Eduard Kuznetsov, Sergei Kovalev, Pavel Litvinov, Yuri Orlov, Aleksandr Podrabinek, Anatoly Sharansky), who speak about pivotal events of Soviet and post-Soviet history, including public poetry readings on Mayakovsky Square in Moscow, the birth and life of samizdat, the Glasnost Meeting of 1965 and the show trial of Sinyavsky and Daniel, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and the 1968 Red Square Demonstration, forced psychiatric "treatment" and hard-labor camps for political prisoners, the fall of the Soviet empire and the failure of democracy in twenty-first-century Russia. The second film, Nemtsov (2016, 66 min.) is a portrait of the liberal politician, leader of the Russian democratic opposition, who was assassinated in Moscow on February 27, 2015. It dwells, in particular, on Russia's first free elections, the city of Nizhny Novgorod as the "capital" of liberal reforms, the movement against the war in Chechnya, the rise of the "oligarchs," the burial of the last Russian Czar Nicolas II, political street protests in Putin's Russia, etc. Combining archival footage and on-camera interviews, Nemtsov is about the life of a man who could have become president of Russia.
VLADIMIR KARA-MURZA Jr. is a journalist, filmmaker, writer and historian. Currently the head of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom and a vice chairman of Open Russia, he was a longtime colleague and advisor to Boris Nemtsov and a candidate for the Russian State Duma. He has appeared before European and North-American parliaments and published in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and other periodicals. He holds an M.A. in History from Cambridge, is the author of Reform or Revolution (Moscow, 2011) and a contributor to numerous influential publications, including Russian Liberalism: Ideas and People (Moscow 2007) and Why Europe Needs a Magnitsky Law (London 2013).
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