MY PERESTROIKA ONLINE

A fascinating portrait of life in Moscow - behind the Iron Curtain and after its fall

OVERVIEW:

A tremendously appealing portrait of existence beyond headlines, My Perestroika raises the curtain of Cold War obscurity. Robin Hessman's first feature documentary is an intimate labor constructed upon the observations and experiences of five thirty-something Muscovites, elementary school colleagues who came of age in the last years of the Soviet Union.

My Perestroika is as accustomed to the irrationalities of politics and the supporting worth of mores as it to a pure longing for childhood - an instance when, as one claimant says, 

" The sun was brighter, the grass was greener."