On the morning of December 26, 1991, the citizens of the Soviet Union woke up in a new country. We managed to peek at the diary entries of people of different professions and walks of life, all made in the immediate aftermath of the USSR’s collapse.
Larisa's Shepitko's bleak WWII-era film begins with a shot of a frozen Russian landscape, with the sound of howling wind and distant gunfire in the background: It doesn't get a whole lot more cheery from there. The story is simple enough to be a fable, an allegory, with which the late Shepitko, a veteran Soviet filmmaker born in the Ukraine a few years before the war, painted the entire miserable enterprise.
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