RusDocFilmFest-3W: SASHA SOKOLOV. The Last Russian Writer

Fools”. His books were distributed through Samizdat, and published worldwide. His parents disowned him when he was a young adult and had him committed; he was banished from the USSR and his citizenship was taken away. A living legend, and a living mystery, the writer determined the direction in which Russian literature would proceed at the end of the 20th century. The film is built on conversations with the author, family home videos, and over a hundred never-before-published photographs from Sasha Sokolov’s personal archive. Perhaps this film will lay the foundation of a yet unwritten biography of the great shut-in of modern Russian literature, who lives among us, and yet remains so evasive.
Language: Russian, English Subtitles. American premiere.
Screening at the Main Theater , DCTV