Film Screening
Details
Tuesday, March 3
7:45 pm
Flint Hall, Room 105
This event is free and open to the public.
Ischeznuvshaia imperiia (The Vanished Empire)
Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov 2008
In “The Vanished Empire” the renowned Russian director Karen Shakhnazarov re-creates the hey-day of the Soviet empire – the rollicking ‘70s, when sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll were the illicit thrills that attracted Soviet youth. The film tells the story of three friends coming of age and looking for love, while navigating the shibboleths of Soviet society and the lure of Western indvidualism. It is a bitter-sweet and nostalgia-tinted resurrection of a (deceptively) more innocent time and place that can be summed up in the Beatles’ lyric “Back in the U.S.S.R, you don’t know how lucky you are, boy!”
