USSR Archives

Werner Herzog: «Facts do not constitute the truth»

Sevara Pan / February 10, 2019

Acclaimed German film director Werner Herzog talks about his most recent film Meeting Gorbachev, while also warning against trying to articulate the truth in precise terms.

Andre Singer, Arms Reduction Treaty, black humour, Brazil, China, Cinema Vérité, demonisation, digitalisation, DOK Leipzig, Ecstatic Truths, Gorbachev, Gulf War, India, Kristina Jaspers, Kuwait, Leonid Brezhnev, Lessons of Darkness, Meeting Gorbachev, Pakistan, post-Gulf, post-Gulf War, Ramin Bahrani, Russia, USSR, WernAcular, Werner Herzog

Archival disaster tourism

Nina Trige Andersen / October 29, 2018

The archival footage from a court action against leading scientists in the Soviet Union of 1930 has been reconfigured into a narrative drama, which leads today‘s audience to believe the opposite of contemporary spectators.

DOK Leipzig, Industrial Party, Maria Baker-Choustova, Millenium Docs Against Gravity, Sergei Loznitsa, Soviet Union, Stalin, The trial, USSR

The ‘high times’ of the Brezhnev years

Nick Holdsworth / June 21, 2018

USSR: Vivid memories of home-made psychedelic drugs and Soviet revolutionary times are brought to life in Soviet Hippies.

Brezhnev, communist, dissidence, estonia, Europe, Hippie, Hippies, Iron Curtain, Liis Lepik, marijuana, moscow, protests, psychedelic drugs, Putin, Russia, Russians, Soviet Hippies, Soviet Union, Tallin, Terje Toomistu, USSR, Vietnam, war