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ND/NF 2009
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Amreeka
We Live in Public
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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
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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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