Documentary film Eternal Memory: Voices from the Great Terror

[Max Pyziur]

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MP
pyz at brama.com


Screening of the documentary film Eternal Memory: Voices from the
Great Terror (1997; 81 minutes), directed by David Pultz and narrated
by Meryl Streep.

Friday, November 7, 7 p.m.
  The Ukrainian Museum
  222 East 6th St.
  (bet. 2nd & 3rd Aves.)
  New York, NY 10009
  RSVP: 212-228-0110,
info at ukrainianmuseum.org

Narrated by Meryl Streep, this award-winning
documentary examines the Stalinist purges and terror in the former Soviet
Union during the 1930s and '40s. An estimated twenty million people lost
their lives; some in labor camps, others starved in state-induced famine,
and many others executed for "crimes against the state."

  Focusing on Ukraine, this film incorporates historical footage,
interviews with witnesses and survivors, and commentary from public
officials and historians, including former U.S. National Security Advisor
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Roman Szporluk of Harvard University, and Robert
Conquest, author of The Great Terror: A Reassessment.

Mr. Pultz will be on hand to answer questions from the
audience following the screening. The Study Guide for the film will be
available for educators.

Admission (includes reception):
$15; $10 Museum members and seniors; $5 students

Reviews:
"...a lyrical and compulsively watchable film that addresses a
difficult subject matter with a visual and stylistic grace that transcends
assumptions about the mediums of both documentary and humand rights
filmmaking...it is an artistic achievement in its own right, a feat of
old-fashioned storytelling that hooks the viewer from its open moments
forward."
- Adriana Leshko, The Ukrainian Weekly
Full text of review in The Ukrainian Weekly, June 7, 1998
http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/1998/239811.shtml

"There's not been a film that we’ve seen in our
festival that’s come along and given such a really comprehensive
historical analysis along with great storytelling. For me, it exemplifies
three of the most important elements of filmmaking: that it touches you
emotionally, that it's of very high artistic quality and that
factually it's very strong."
- Bruni Burres,
Director, Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

"...offers viewers the opportunity to ponder a fascinating,
appalling episode of the 20th century."
- The Arizona Star

"...poignant and informative."
-Cineaste

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