A time capsule from behind the Iron Curtain that'll make you go 'they filmed WHAT?'
Direction
Smuggled access to ordinary Soviet lives
Director
K. Gow
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director K. Gow was Australian, making this one of the rare Western documentaries shot entirely inside Brezhnev-era USSR without official Soviet cooperation.
Released months before Reagan's 'evil empire' re-election, the film's sympathetic portrayal of Soviet civilians was politically controversial—some critics called it naive, others prescient.
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