The Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain is the most expensive and the longest 35mm feature shot in the former Soviet Union within the last 10 years. Made by the prominent Russian director Savva Koulish, it covers the unique, mostly unknown period of 1947-1957 behind the Iron Curtain in an area comprising one-sixth of the global territory categorised as the USSR, which no longer exists today.
The Iron Curtain showcases a dramatic true-life story of a large family in a communal apartment in Moscow. Its representatives, from different nationalities and social groups, join forces to oppose the totalitarian state and to save a child from its destructive ideology. They use a most powerful weapon: the eternal value of the Ten Commandaments.
'I did my best to portray the 1960s generation of Russian democracy-makers, which now rules the country,' says director Koulish, 'in an epoch of transition, which changed the world.' This, his seventh film, took him five years to make, 'starting in 1989 in the Soviet Union and wrapping by the end of 1994 in Russia.' EUGENE ZYKOV
Prod co: Roskomkino
Dir/Scr: Savva Koulish
Ph: Vladimir Klimov, Andrei Renkov
Costumes: Vera Chaureli
Music: Oleg Karavaichuk
Cast: Sasha Bykovsky, Timofei Fyodorov, Boris Romanov, Lyubov Matyushina, Vera Mayorova-Zemskaya
International sales: Independent Experimental Centre of Culture & Info
Running time: 232 mins
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