pereSTROIKA - reCONSTRUCTION of a flat
pereSTROIKA – umBAU einer Wohnung, Germany, 2008, 84 min, 35 mm, Creative, Current Affairs, Society
Perestroika means reconstruction. The metaphor coined by Gorbachev for the modernization of society is shown here with the complicated sale of a former Soviet communal flat. Every room of the desolate living space belongs to someone else - a single mother, a family of four, a bachelor, and a woman about to retire. Thus, many individual interests have to be accomodated. The sternly friendly real estate agents are happy to help - not out of altruism, but because capital must be enlarged, profit increased.
52' version also available (Titled: "Russian Monopoly")
Director:
Christiane Büchner
Producer:
Tobias Büchner
Director of photography:
Irina Uralskaya
Screenplay:
Christiane Büchner
Editor:
Gesa Marten
Sound:
Aleksander Antonov
Music:
Dietmar Bonnen, Andreas Schilling
Languages:
Russian
Subtitles:
English
Büchner Filmproduktion GbR
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