TY  - ADVS
AU  - Grappell,Amy
AU  - Grappell,Amy
AU  - McCabe,Peter
AU  - Eden,Sean
AU  - Tucker,Shona
ED  - Video Project (Firm),
ED  - Kanopy (Firm),
TI  - Light From the East
PY  - 2005///
PB  - Video Project
KW  - Balts (Indo-European people)
KW  - History, Modern
KW  - History
KW  - Documentary films
KW  - Foreign study
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Title from title frames; Film; In Process Record; Amy Grappell, Peter McCabe, Sean Eden, Shona Tucker; Originally produced by Video Project in 2005
N2  - 1991. Glasnost. Perestroika. The Soviet Union opens its doors to the West. A troupe of young American actors from La Mama Theater in NY travels to Kyiv to participate in the first US/Ukrainian cultural exchange theater project in Soviet history. The play they are to perform is based on the life of Kurbas, a revolutionary Ukrainian theatre director, murdered in one of Stalin’s purges. As rehearsals progress, Gorbachev is kidnapped, a military coup overthrows the Kremlin, and the entire USSR is plunged into volatile uncertainty. The play ironically begins to mirror action in the streets. Kurbas and his company struggled to make art during the revolution that ushered in Communism; the international troupe performs the life of Kurbas as the walls of Communism come tumbling down. During the massive political changes of 1991, including the fall of Communism and Ukraine gaining national independence, the film takes the viewer on a personal journey behind the iron curtain while highlighting Ukraine’s historic struggle to maintain independence from Russia
UR  - https://tus.kanopy.com/node/12119070
UR  - https://www.kanopy.com/node/12119070/external-image
ER  -