MY CLASS - FROM RUSSIA WITH RELATIVITY

by Ekaterina Eremenko

    Synopsis

    My Class - is a film about the brain drain, about tradition and globalisation, about materialism andidealism and not least about national identity.In 1982, 26 young specially gifted pupils are accepted at the school for Natural Sciences in the SovietUnion. Graduating from this school guarantees a most promising future. But then Perestroika happens,the old order collapses. Today, those pupils are spread all over the world and hardly any of them are still employed within scientific research.With her film, the director Ekaterina Eremenko undertakes a very personal journey into her past inorder to meet her former classmates once again and to find out, what has become of them. Russian with German and English subtitles

    Festivals

    Message to Man International Film Festival 2008, nominated for the Russian National Documentary Award
    “LAVR” for best art film, awarded the special prize at the Open Film Festival “Frescoes of the North”, awarded Special
    prize at the “Kinoteatr.doc” Festival

    Cast and Crew

    Director

    Ekaterina Eremenko

    Producer

    Thomas Kufus