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Russian Lessons
Russian Lessons
Andrei Nekrasov, Olga Konskaya / Norway, Russia / 2010 / 110 min.
Just after the first shots were fired in the Russia-Georgia War in August 2008, the Russian documentary-makers Olga Konskaya and Andrei Nekrasov went to the very heart of the conflict at the border with South Ossetia. Each of the directors comes from a different side of the fence: Nekrasov from Georgia, Konskaya from Russia. The two filmmakers question eye-witnesses to the events of August 2008 and try to put together a picture of the conflict. The testimony of those who witnessed the war is supplemented with references to the media's manipulation of facts. In order to explain the underlying causes of the feud, the directors also look at the conflict at the beginning of the 1990s in Abkhazia, another autonomous Georgian territory. In this unconventional and very personal film the two directors try to present audiences with their own view of who bears responsibility for the war and its various aspects despite the difficulty of making such judgements.
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