LITTLE VERA — SOVIET COLLAPSE CINEMA

Little Vera (1988) — About the life of a typical late Soviet girl. The most popular Soviet film of 1988, and one of the first Soviet films to have any nudity and sex. Directed by Vasili Pichul.

A little note: Natalya Negoda, the actress who played the leading role, was the first Soviet woman to pose naked in Playboy in 1989 to promote the film abroad. So Little Vera is not just a great film, it’s prophetic in a lot of ways. It foreshadowed something that was just around the corner for a lot of women in the USSR: a de facto market prostitutization of the female body on a scale never before experienced by the population. 

English subtitles. 128 minutes. 

Evgenia Kovda and Yasha Levine will host a Q&A and discussion after the film — to be moderated by surprise guest. 

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ABOUT THE EVENT

This screening is part of the NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS PRESENT: SOVIET COLLAPSE CINEMA series. Four weekends this summer in Brooklyn, Evgenia and Yasha will be screening different Russian films from the late 1980s and 1990s — all of them set in a decaying or collapsed Soviet society.

These are cult Russian films, and it’s almost certain they have never been screened in American theaters.

These movies are not only a historic document. They are relevant to America today. America has entered its own age of decline — the signs are hard not to see. And as people who have lived through the decline and collapse of the USSR, Evgenia and Yasha see a lot of parallels between what happened there and what is happening now in the US. You could say Russia’s past is from America’s future — and these films give a glimpse into that past…a past that might be the future here.

All films will be shown with English subtitles. There will be discussion and Q&As after each screening.