Eternal Memory: Voices From the Great Terror


1h 21m 1997

Brief Synopsis

During the 30s and 40s, "social surgery on a monumental scale" was practiced in the USSR by the Stalinist regime: 20 million died in labor camps, of famine, or in wholesale executions. a legendary hero for betraying his father to the secret police as an "enemy of the state," a act which became a sym

Film Details

Genre
Documentary
Release Date
1997

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 21m

Synopsis

During the 30s and 40s, "social surgery on a monumental scale" was practiced in the USSR by the Stalinist regime: 20 million died in labor camps, of famine, or in wholesale executions. a legendary hero for betraying his father to the secret police as an "enemy of the state," a act which became a symbol of Stalin's monolithic state-machine. Streets, parks and schools were named after this "little patriot." Pavlik's heroic reputation has come in for its share of revisionist analysis since Perestroika. We return to the remote village where he was born to meet with those who recall the myth and can expose the wretched reality.

Film Details

Genre
Documentary
Release Date
1997

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 21m

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Miscellaneous Notes

Shown at Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in New York City (Walter Reade) June 12-25, 1998.

Shown in Los Angeles (Laemmle's Sunset 5) as part of program "Documentary Days 2000" February 26 - April 9, 2000.

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