New Documentaries about Russian Literature to Screen in New York
Several new Russian and international documentary films about Russian literature are screening at the 7th Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York, October 10-12, 2014:
RUSSIA’S OPEN BOOK: WRITING IN THE AGE OF PUTIN
Directors: Paul Mitchell and Sarah Wallis, Wilton Films
Intelligent Television, USA
55 minutes – 2013
Who are the new Russian Tolstoys and Dostoevskys? Hosted by author and actor Stephen Fry and featuring the work of Dmitry Bykov, Mariam Petrosyan, Zakhar Prilepin, Anna Starobinets, Vladimir Sorokin, and Ludmila Ulitskaya.
VASILY GROSSMAN: I UNDERSTOOD THAT I HAD DIED
Director: Elena Yakovich
RACORD-TV, Russia
56 minutes – 2014