MIPTV Picks: My Perestroika

As an American who had lived in Moscow, producing the Russian version of Sesame Street, Robin Hessman returned to the country as a filmmaker with an aim to tell the stories of several Russians of the Perestroika generation - those who had lived behind the 'Iron Curtain' only to see it torn down with the collapse of the USSR, replaced with new freedoms and uncertainties.

March 31, 2010

As an American who had lived in Moscow, producing the Russian version of Sesame Street, Robin Hessman returned to the country as a filmmaker with an aim to tell the stories of several Russians of the Perestroika generation - those who had lived behind the 'Iron Curtain' only to see it torn down with the collapse of the USSR, replaced with new freedoms and uncertainties.