ND/NF 2009 Program Overview Amreeka We Live in Public $9.99 Autumn Barking Water Birdwatchers Can Go Through Skin Cold Souls The Cove Every Little Step The Fly Give Me Your Hand Harmony and Me Home Louise-Michel The Maid Mid-August Lunch The Milk of Sorrow Ordinary Boys Paper Soldier Parque vía The Shaft Stay the Same... Treeless Mountain Unmade Beds Teaming Up Ticket Info About Submissions Past ND/NF Festivals

Paper Soldier / Bumaznyj soldat Series: New Directors/New Films 2009 Director: Alexey German Jr., Country: Russia, Release: 2008, Runtime: 118 "All you long-take freaks should grab tickets immediately." -Time Out New York "Paper Soldier, a Russian film from director Alexey German Jr., takes a street-level approach - or more specifically a gray, damp, muddy earth-level approach, to the Russian half of the space race, in an attempt to strip this proud moment in Soviet history of all its glory," writes Tim Young in the filmlinc blog. Read the whole review>> Definitely not a documentary, this fanciful, impressionistic story of the early days of the Soviet space program is part drama and part essay writ large. Danya, a doctor working with the young cosmonauts is troubled by recurring nightmares. And why not? In addition to the space cadets, he’s got his wife, his girlfriend, and the Soviet liberal experiment of the ’60s to worry about. Director Alexey German Jr. looks back at a lost time while paying homage to classic Russian cinema, the plays of Anton Chekhov, and the era of Khrushchev. Against strikingly barren yet beautiful landscapes that are practically characters in their own right, Danya and his fellow liberal intellectuals debate the meaning of life in a new era.

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