Feast your eyes on reflections of 1970s Soviet Russia through material gathered by filmmaker Vivian Ostrovsky during a series of expeditions in and around Moscow with her Brazilian family - mixed with Soviet-era found footage. Ostrovsky's father discovered that both his brother and sister were still alive and living in the USSR – and they had not seen each other for 40 years. The personal and the historical mix beautifully in what is part travelogue and part a journey to relatives, relationships and a decent gulp of Vodka.
Festivals
- Toronto Jewish Film Festival, Canada, 2010
- Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival, Israel, 2009
- Berlin Jewish Film Festival, 2008
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“Vivian Ostrovsky, in her sprightly new film, NIKITA KINO, captures the slump-shouldered zeitgeist of the Khrushchev era. Ostrovsky’s family emigrated from Russia to the sunny climes of Rio de Janeiro to escape the anti-Semitism of the Stalin regime. But once her father found out that his siblings still remained in Moscow, they began annual visits to their homeland. Through a montage of family home movies, Soviet cinema, and government propaganda, Ostrovsky educes the buoyant spirit of the Soviet people in a way I haven’t seen since the last reel of ROCKY IV….”
Washington, CITY PAPER