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HARVEST OF DESPAIR
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A documentary about the Ukrainian "terror famine" of 1932-33, which caused the   deaths of 7 million people. Using interviews with survivors and scholars to      supplement rare photographic evidence, it establishes that the terror famine     was deliberately created by the Soviet government as part of Stalin's          decades-long effort to destroy the Ukrainian peasantry who resisted            collectivization. Academy Award nomination. Canada, 1984, 55 mins.
MY JOY
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“You can bet that title is ironic, borne on the chilled attitudes of modern Russians. A brutal festival powder keg, this movie starts with the sight of a corpse getting dumped into a cement pit and doesn't let up. The guy we're following, Georgy (Nemets), looks normal enough; he's a truck driver sharing a notably nonverbal relationship with a mysterious woman in his apartment. Soon enough, Georgy picks up an old man (Golovin) who tells a horrible WWII story we see in flashback, then a barely teenage prostitute (Shuvalova) spouting foreboding anecdotes of her own. Don't get too attached to any of these characters; into the movie's haunted, randomly violent terrain we plunge. Director Sergei Loznitsa, a prominent documentarian only now diving into fiction, presents it all in a matter-of-fact stare...a ceaseless, unvaried stream of callous horrors” (Time Out New York). Nominated for the Golden Palm at Cannes. In Russian and German with English subtitles.

Sergei Loznitsa---Germany/Ukraine---2010---127 mins.