Perm-36. Reflexion
Producers: Sergei Kachkin, Konstantin Nafikov
Production company: april filmlab, Reflexion Films
Director: Sergei Kachkin
Language: Russian
Current status: completed
Three former political prisoners - S. Kovalev, M. Meylakh and V. Pestov - tell the story of their imprisonment in the “Perm-36” prison camp. Years later they return to the camp (now a museum) to participate in the “Pilorama” Forum, a campsite, mirror-like, reflects the condition of Russian society haunted by phantom pains after the fall of the Soviet Union. The red-brown activists zealously rail against the existence of the museum and the forum. In time they manage to attract the attention of society and of the government. As a result dark clouds gather over the museum…
More information on perm36reflexion.ru/en
Russia | Human rights, personal view, history | 100 min | 2015



