Subject: Invitation: Documentaries on the war in Chechnya -- "Three Comrades" and "White Ravens" [Washington D.C., Nov. 11, 2008]
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008
From: "Elena Postnikova" <postnikova@freedomhouse.org>
American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus invites you to a special screening of two documentaries about the human tragedy of the Chechen War, as told by those on opposite sides of the conflict.
“Three Comrades”
by Masha Novikova
and
“White Ravens: Nightmare in Chechnya”
by Johann Feindt and Tamara Trampe
Goethe Institute
812 7th St NW
Washington, DC 20001
November 11, 2008
5:30 p.m.-“Three Comrades”
7:15 p.m.-“White Ravens: Nightmare in Chechnya”
Admission is free
Please RSVP to: intern-acpc@freedomhouse.org
About the Films:
"Three Comrades"
Ruslan, Ramzan and Islam are friends growing up in Grozny, listening to Western
rock and making lifelong plans. But their lives change forever as they are
caught up in the war. Two of the young men never see their 30th birthdays and
the third is wrongfully convicted of terrorism and forced to flee his homeland.
“White Ravens”
Kiril and Petya are two Russian 18-year-olds who are sent off to Chechnya as
soldiers in the beginning of the 1999 war. The film follows their return from
the war and struggle to fit into a society that refuses to acknowledge that the
war in Chechnya exists.