"Perestroika," Russian filmmaker Slava Tsukerman's tale of a Soviet emigre returning to his native country in the wake of Gorbachev's political reforms, is an undeniably imaginative but ultimately ...

Like history itself, historical documentaries tend to be written by the winners – experts whose “greatest hits” style approach is as comforting as the muzak that plays underneath their interviews.

Robin Hessman makes her Sundance debut with “My Perestroika,” a documentary that “adopts the idea of the ‘everyman story,’ suggesting that the unheralded lives of the last generation of Soviets to ...

International Film Circuit has announced its plans for a theatrical release of Robin Hessman’s “My Perestroika,” which premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival and has since gone on to screen ...

Glasnost is a nostalgic word for youth who came of age in the’80s, even outside Russia, but for those whose childhood began inthe Iron Curtain days and ended in the specter of freedom, it takeson new ...

A sort of “7 Through 35 Up” experienced from the other side of the Cold War, Robin Hessman’s ingratiating “My Perestroika” uses five Muscovites as a microcosm of the monumental societal changes ...

In "My Perestroika," filmmaker Robin Hessman traces the last generation raised in the Soviet Union through the eyes of five Muscovties, from childhoods filled with propaganda to life in the new Russia ...

A sort of “7 Through 35 Up” experienced from the other side of the Cold War, Robin Hessman’s ingratiating “My Perestroika” uses five Muscovites as a microcosm of the monumental societal changes ...