Filmmaker Robin Hessman talks about the making of "My Perestroika." Filmmaker Robin Hessman explains how she came to live in Russia for most of the 1990s and how her time there led her to make "My ...

A sort of “7 Through 35 Up” experienced from the other side of the Cold War, Robin Hessman’s ingratiating “My Perestroika” uses five Muscovites as a microcosm of the monumental societal changes ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - A terrifically engaging picture of life beyond the headlines, "My Perestroika" lifts the veil of Cold War mystery. Robin Hessman's first feature documentary is an ...

Robin Hessman makes her Sundance debut with “My Perestroika,” a documentary that “adopts the idea of the ‘everyman story,’ suggesting that the unheralded lives of the last generation of Soviets to ...

The history of the 20th century was bookended by the Bolshevik Revolution and the collapse of the Soviet Union, and in between came the era-defining Cold War. But for Russians who grew up during this ...

In “My Perestroika,” the children romping behind the Iron Curtain seemed no different than children romping elsewhere. They seemed happy, well dressed, well fed. Is that because children are just ...

Russians describe the beginning of perestroika. In this clip from "My Perestroika," a group of Russians describe how they felt during the beginning of Gorbachev's perestroika. Openness and reform were ...

Is it a good thing that film—not the audiovisual materials that exist everywhere but movies, projected in public spaces— has stopped being central to American life? By signing up, you confirm that you ...

Like history itself, historical documentaries tend to be written by the winners – experts whose “greatest hits” style approach is as comforting as the muzak that plays underneath their interviews.