RUSSIAN LESSONS

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2010


RUSSIAN LESSONS
World Cinema Documentary Competition


Directors: Olga Konskaya and Andrei Nekrasov
Executive Producer:  Giorgi Arveladze Producer: Torstein Grude


An investigation into Russian preparation and execution of the war in Georgia, autumn 2008, with the forgotten ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia in 1993 as a backdrop.


Renowned Russian film director Andrei Nekrasov returns to Sundance with his controversial film RUSSIAN LESSONS which tells the story of the 2008 Russia-Georgia war in the context of the two countries’ post-Soviet history.  His journey to Sundance this time will be bittersweet. His co-director, partner and wife, Olga Konskaya, a prominent film producer and human rights campaigner, sadly, passed away in May 2009 while finishing the film, at the age of 44.


RUSSIAN LESSONS starts as a journey by two directors-protagonists, Olga Konskaya and Andrei Nekrasov, one on each side of the frontline during the last year’s Russian-Georgia war.  A personal take of the two Russians on war, politics, political culture and history focuses first of all on human drama before coming up with assessments. They gradually emerge, however, as the intercut double journey progresses, the two meet on the frontline and return to their native St. Petersburg with the footage they shot during the war.  In their cutting room the filmmakers analyze and edit their material, and this process becomes part of the actual film.  Using this devise the film strives to integrate hard fact analysis into the narrative of the two filmmakers’ journey through space and time, but also through the minefield of propaganda and emotional manipulation that have surrounded the Russo-Georgian confrontation.


Importantly RUSSIAN LESSONS puts the recent war in the context of the post-Soviet history which has managed to keep its darkest pages away from international public’s attention despite dozens of relevant UN resolutions and OSCE conventions.  At the same time as Milosevic and his henchmen were earning the reputation of the biggest evil of the post-communist world, a perfectly comparable, but perhaps even more cruel, campaign of terror and ethnic cleansing was happening in Georgia considered by some as Russia’s sphere of “privileged strategic interests”.


Press & Industry Screening
Wednesday, Jan. 27th, 8:00 p.m. at Holiday Village III - 1776 Park Ave, Park City


Public Screenings:
Tuesday, January 26th, 9:00 p.m. - Holiday Village Cinema IV -  1776 Park Ave, Park City
Wednesday, January 27th, 9:00 a.m. - Yarrow Hotel Theatre 1 - 1800 Park Avenue, Park City
Thursday, January 28th, 10:30 p.m. - Broadway Centre Cinemas IV - 111 E. Broadway, SLC
Friday, January 29th, 3:00 p.m. - Holiday Village Cinema IV - 1776 Park Ave, Park City

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