NFB Collection
Russian Diary
198927 min 17 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Terre NashBonnie Sherr Klein
Production: Terre NashBonnie Sherr KleinSigne JohanssonKathleen ShannonRina Fraticelli
Script: Terre Nash
This documentary is a last glimpse of the Soviet Union before the transition to Glasnost. The diary of the filmmaker is used as a narrative device in recalling encounters with a wedding couple, an actress, a class of nine-year-old school children, a "refusnik," and women who survived the siege of Leningrad. Part of the Speaking Our Peace series.
Subject categories
- War, Conflict and Peace > Nuclear Age and the Cold WarPeace and PeacekeepingWomen
- Women > Social Action
Credits
- director
- Terre Nash
- Bonnie Sherr Klein
- producer
- Terre Nash
- Bonnie Sherr Klein
- Signe Johansson
- executive producer
- Kathleen Shannon
- Rina Fraticelli
- script
- Terre Nash
- editing
- Terre Nash
- narrator
- Terre Nash
- camera
- Sandi Sissel
- sound
- Diane Carrière
- sound editing
- Jackie Newell
Awards
- Bronze Plaque Award - Category: Social Issues International Film and Video Festival