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Very Russian Geniuses

Filmmaker Ekaterina Eremenko sets out to discover how the seismic political changes of the 1980s affected her classmates who joined Russia’s elite natural science school in 1982.

In 1982, filmmaker Ekaterina Eremenko was among 26 students accepted into Russia’s elite natural science school. A golden future lay ahead of them, but the birth of perestroika and the collapse of the old order meant that that future was no longer certain. Eremenko sets out to discover what happened to her classmates and how the seismic political changes of the 1980s affected her generation.

1 hour, 30 minutes

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Tue 19 Feb 2008 22:30

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