Perestroika
2009, English. Directed by Slava Tsukerman.
Top astrophysicist Sasha Greenberg has spent the past 17 years working in the United States. An invitation to speak at a Congress on Cosmology in his native Moscow brings him home for the first time to confront colleagues, and unanswered personal questions. As Russia undergoes perestroika, public and private lives are radically re-assessed and Sasha sees the social and sexual upheavals as a crisis
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- English
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Cast & crew
- Slava TsukermanDirector
- Sam RobardsAlexander aka "Sasha" Greenberg
- F. Murray AbrahamProfessor Gross
- Ally SheedyHelen
- Jicky SchneeJill
- Valery AfanasyevCast
- Mariya AndreevaCast
- Anatoliy GoryachevCast
- Aleksandr PozharovCast
- Andrey SergeevCast
- Oksana StashenkoNatasha
- Stepan Lapshinyoung Listov
- Stanislav BelyaevSasha Age 17
Details
- Released
- 20 March 2009
- Country
- Russia, United States of America
- Written by
- Slava Tsukerman
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Perestroika runs 97 minutes (1h 37m).
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Who directed Perestroika?
Perestroika (2009) was directed by Slava Tsukerman and stars Sam Robards, F. Murray Abraham, Ally Sheedy.