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  • The Stone Bridge
    Alexander Terekhov / Nina Chordas / Simon Patterson
    On June 3, 1943 at the Stone Bridge in Moscow a tragedy took place that shocked the political elite of that time and became the starting point of an investigation into other historical and political facts. Nina Umanskaya, the beautiful 14-year-old daughter of a Soviet diplomat, was murdered by her classmate and admirer, Volodya Shakhurin, son of a People’s Commissar. After that...
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    30,26 €

  • A Book Without Photographs
    Sergei Shargunov / Simon Patterson
    Sergei Shargunov’s A Book without Photographs follows the young journalist and activist through selected snapshots from different periods of his remarkable life. Through memories both sharp and vague, we see scenes from Shargunov’s Soviet childhood, his upbringing in the family of a priest; his experience of growing up during the fall of empire and studying journalism at Moscow...
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    18,23 €

  • Christened with Crosses
    Eduard Kochergin / Nina Chordas / Simon Patterson
    While the mothers in Siberia wait for their soldier sons to return from the war in the west in 1945, the eight year old Eduard secretly jumps on board the trains heading in the opposite direction, heading west, towards Leningrad. Placed in a Siberian orphanage as a child because his parents were arrested as public enemies, there is only one thing he wants: to go back home to Le...
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    24,48 €

  • Sin
    Zakhar Prilepin / Nina Chordas / Simon Patterson
    Zakhar Prilepin’s novel-in-stories, Sin, has become a literary phenomenon in Russia, where it was published in 2007. It has been hailed as the epitome of the spirit of the opening decade of the 21st century, and was called 'the book of the decade' by the prestigious Super Natsbest Award jury. In the episodes of Zakharka’s life, presented here in non-chronological order, we see ...
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    26,66 €

  • The Time of Women
    Elena Chizhova / Nina Chordas / Simon Patterson
    Life is not easy in the Soviet Union at mid-twentieth century, especially for a factory worker who becomes an unwed mother. But Antonina is lucky to get a room in a communal apartment that she and her little girl share with three old women. Glikeria is the daughter of former serfs. Ariadna comes from a wealthy family and speaks French. Yevdokia is illiterate and bitter. All hav...
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    25,83 €