Food for thought Stalin documentary to be released this week
Alina Lobzina - Moscow News - themoscownews.com - 11.19.12
The center is holding a screening of a new film, "Bread for Stalin. Stories of the dispossessed," which was created by Alexei Pivovarov a TV journalist.
Governor of the Krasnodar Region, Alexander Tkachyov, boxing world champion Vitaly Klichko, rocker Vladimir Shakhrin and businessman Alfred Koch, who served as a deputy prime minister back in the 90s, have been featured in the film.
A number of famed actors, including Chulpan Khamatova, have also been cast in some reenactment scenes for the documentary, according to DOC's website.
A discussion about the controversial time in the Russian history when hundred of thousand of kulaks, the wealthiest peasants, were repressed is to follow the screening. Koch, Khamatova and journalist Leonid Parfyonov who tell their family stories in the film are to take part, as well as the film's author.
Screening at RIA Novosti
The screening is to be held at 8 p.m. on Wednesday at RIA Novosti's Multimedia Center in Moscow (4 Zubovsky Bulvar).
To attend, please register at the DOC's website [http://cdkino.ru/] by clicking on center's logo in on the left side of the page and mark that you are going to come to the screening.
The website has some information available in English, although most of it is in Russian.
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The center is holding a screening of a new film, "Bread for Stalin. Stories of the dispossessed," which was created by Alexei Pivovarov a TV journalist.
Governor of the Krasnodar Region, Alexander Tkachyov, boxing world champion Vitaly Klichko, rocker Vladimir Shakhrin and businessman Alfred Koch, who served as a deputy prime minister back in the 90s, have been featured in the film.
A number of famed actors, including Chulpan Khamatova, have also been cast in some reenactment scenes for the documentary, according to DOC's website.
A discussion about the controversial time in the Russian history when hundred of thousand of kulaks, the wealthiest peasants, were repressed is to follow the screening. Koch, Khamatova and journalist Leonid Parfyonov who tell their family stories in the film are to take part, as well as the film's author.
Screening at RIA Novosti
The screening is to be held at 8 p.m. on Wednesday at RIA Novosti's Multimedia Center in Moscow (4 Zubovsky Bulvar).
To attend, please register at the DOC's website [http://cdkino.ru/] by clicking on center's logo in on the left side of the page and mark that you are going to come to the screening.
The website has some information available in English, although most of it is in Russian.