RUSDOCFILMFEST-3W: SUCCESS OF A HOPELESS AFFAIR / LIFE IN WORD AND DEED

He spent four years in the GULAG, and was rehabilitated during the period of Khrushchev’s uncovering of Stalin's crimes and the Cult of Personality in 1956. During the mid-60s, Pomerants’ philosophical and literary essays were published in Samizdat. His name was stricken from official Soviet life but his books were published in Germany, France, and the USA. He turned into a theorist of the dissident movement, and declared this movement as an Exodus from Impersonality.
LIFE IN WORD AND DEED
40 min 2017 Russia
The documentary looks at the life and work of investigative journalist Yury Shchekochikhin, a Duma representative in the Perestroika period. An outspoken champion of democracy, free expression, and the rule of law during Perestroika and in post-Soviet Russia, Yury was famous for his probing investigative reporting on corruption, the KGB, human rights’ violations, international organized crime, and the war in Chechnya. Yury died in 2003, under unclear circumstances, in the middle of a major investigation of corruption at the top levels of the Russian law enforcement and intelligence services. The film presents the voices of Yury’s Russian, Ukrainian and Georgian colleagues, all participants in the dramatic political and social events that transformed post-Soviet societies.
Q&A with Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Vice-President of the European Federation of Journalists, widow of Yury Shchekochikhin.
 Language: Russian, English Subtitles. American premieres.
Two screenings at the Main Theater
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