Documentary Film: How to Live 100 Russian Years

SSEES Russian Studies Seminar Series presents a documentary film showing introduced by Paul Richardson
About this Event
In 1917, Russia was wracked by revolution, famine, war, and unrest. And yet, all that year children were born. Resilience is a film about some of those children, 100 years later, and their remarkable life stories. The 25-minute film is in Russian with English subtitles.

To capture the film, three journalists – Paul Richardson, Mikhail Mordasov, and Nadya Grebennikova – traveled over 20,000 kilometers around Russia and Eastern Europe interviewing, filming, and photographing 22 Russian centenarians born in 1917. The film was released on November 7, 2017, the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. A book of the same name, featuring the centenarians’ life stories told largely in their own words, was released in 2018.

This screening will be presented by journalist Paul Richardson, who will introduce the film.