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 Release Date: 01/01/05 (Future Release)
Starring: Sean Eden, Amy Grappell, Peter McCabe
Director: Amy Grappell
Rating: (NR) |
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NEW YORK VIEW
Amy Grappell’s gripping documentary depicts the efforts of a group of actors from New York who travel to Kiev in the midst of glasnost to participate in a joint Ukrainian-American theater project, only to wind up in the middle of the collapse of communism and the death throes of the Soviet Union.
CINEMASOURCE SYNOPSIS
1991. Glasnost. Perestroika. The Soviet Union opens its doors to the West. A troupe of young American actors from La Mama Theater in New York travels to Kiev to participate in the first American/Ukrainian cultural exchange theater project in history. The play they are to perform is based on the life of Les Kurbas, a revolutionary Ukrainian theatre director who was murdered in one of Stalin's purges. Two weeks into their trip, Gorbachev is kidnapped, the Kremlin is overthrown by a military coup and the entire USSR is plunged into volatile uncertainty. As rehearsals progress, the play ironically begins to mirror action in the streets. Kurbas and his company struggled to make art during the revolution that ushered in Communism; the international troupe performs the life of Kurbas as the walls of Communism come tumbling down. During the massive political changes of 1991, including the fall of Communism and the Ukraine declaring its national independence, "Light From the East" takes viewers on a philosophical inquiry into the meaning of freedom.
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