Pionery-geroi
Pioneer Heroes

Varya Shablakova
Pionery-geroi | Pioneer Heroes by Natalya Kudryashova
RUS 2015, Panorama
Alexandr Budarin © CTB Film Company

Pionery-geroi | Pioneer Heroes by Natalya Kudryashova
RUS 2015, Panorama
Alexandr Budarin © CTB Film Company
Over twenty-five years on, all three have now established themselves professionally in Moscow, and yet they have not really found their bearings in present day Russia. Olga suffers from panic attacks, Andrey tries to fill his inner void with computer games, and Katya is pursued by unsettling dreams. Moving poetically between past and present, Natalia Kudryashova shows the gulf between the visions of yesteryear and today’s reality which the dissolution of the Soviet Union has left behind for its final generation of Young Pioneers. Impressively dense and atmospheric images describe their attitudes towards life. Derelict concrete buildings, imposing and Kafkaesque, give shape to the oppressive shadows of their original dreams that now threaten to engulf them.
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