General Information

Author/Creator

Shevchenko, Vladimir, director.

Language

Russian.

Subtitles

English

Published

Soviet Union : The American-Soviet Film Initiative Moscow, 1986.

Physical Description

DVD-ROM (54 min.)

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00006712

Contents/Summary

Summary

The Glasnost Film Festival is a 12-video collection featuring 22 Soviet documentary films produced in the "Glasnost Era." Many of the films remain definitive and timeless documents of previously unexplored aspects of Soviet history and culture. Shevchenko's film crew was the first in the disaster zone following the meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, documenting both the disaster and the heroic and horrifying attempts to clean up. They shot continuously for more than three months. Portions of the film are exposed with white blotches -- a radiation leakage. The film wasn't shown immediately because of party censorship; it was released only after the death of the director and heavily cut.

Subjects

Subject

Soviet Union

Bibliographic Information

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
DVD-ROM	OSA Film Library	FL Record 0985	Available	-	-
Digital film	OSA Film Library	FL Record 0985 (HU_OSA_00006712.mp4)	Available		Access Copy, MP4 format