Post-Soviet Russian Cinema

(Russia and France, 1997)

This widely acclaimed film is arresting as both an intense drama about a troubling family dynamic, and as an allegory about the tension that filled the Soviet Union in the early years of the Cold War. Told through the eyes of a young boy born to a homeless mother, the story charts their "rescue" by a mysterious stranger, who may or may not have been an army officer, and his uneasy relationship with his new family. Winner for Best Picture at Russia's 1997 Nika Awards, and an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.

Monday, September 8 at 7:30 p.m.

DeBartolo 349