| Genre: | Art/Foreign |
| Year: | 1996 |
| Rating: | ? |
| Country: | Russia |
| Cast: | Anna Mikhalkov, Nikita Mikhalkov, and Nadia Mikhalkov |
| Credits: | Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov |
Synopsis: Two years ago, Nikita Mikhalkov's poignant Academy Award winning film "Burnt By the Sun" gave American Audiences a widespread glimpse into contemporary Russian cinema as well as personal history and politics. This remarkable documentary, his newest release - at once intensely intimate and sweepingly ambitious - juxtaposes the collapse of the Soviet Union with the growth of his daughter Anna over the course of thirteen years, beginning in 1980.
Because of prevailing censorship restrictions, Mikhalkov decided that the best way to express his thoughts on his ailing nation was to make a "home movie," shot in secret at considerable risk. Ana's personal evolution is interwoven with a caustic collage of news footage and propaganda films tracing the Soviet Union from the end of the repressive Brezhnev regime through the brief heyday of Perestroika to the shaky arrival of democracy.
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