The Soviet Story (2008) Edvins Snore

The Soviet Story (2008) Edvins Snore

Director: Edvins Snore | Writer: Edvins Snore | Editor: Edvins Snore | Cast: Andre Brie, Vladimir Bukovsky, Norman Davies, Aleksandr Guryanov, Vladimir Karpov, Emma Korpa, Girts Valdis Kristovski, Rita Papina, Pierre Rigoulo, Boris Sokolov | Genre: Documentary, History, War | Cinematography: Edgars Daugavvanags | Awards: 1 nomination | Runtime: 86 Min | Format: DvdRip, Color, B&W, NTSC, Avi | Language: English | Country: Latvia

The Soviet Story is a 2008 documentary film about Soviet Communism and Soviet-German collaboration before 1941 written and directed by Edvīns Šnore and sponsored by the UEN Group in the European Parliament.
The film features interviews with western and Russian historians such as Norman Davies and Boris Sokolov, Russian writer Viktor Suvorov, Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, members of the European Parliament and the participants, as well as the victims of Soviet terror.
The film argues that there were close philosophical, political and organizational connections between the Nazi and Soviet systems before and during the early stages of World War II. It highlights the Great Purge as well as the Great Famine, Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Katyn massacre, Gestapo-NKVD collaboration, Soviet mass deportations and medical experiments in the GULAG.

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Synopsis: This is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its crimes were made taboo, and the complete story of Europe’s most murderous regime has never been told. Until now…


Film Festivals and Awards
The film has been screened in the following film festivals:
2008 Boston Film Festival, USA – "The Soviet Story" received the “ Mass Impact Award”
2008 KinoLev Film Festival - Lviv, Ukraine
2008 Black Nights Film Festival – Tallinn, Estonia
2008 Arsenals Film Festival - Riga, Latvia
2008 Promitey Film Festival - Tbilisi, Georgia
2008 Baltic Film Festival – Berlin, Germany
2009 Sedona International Film Festival – Sedona, Arizona, USA
2009 Mene Tekel festival - Prague, Czech Republic
2009 Politicsonfilm Film Festival - Washington, USA
In 2009 the film has been nominated for the biannual Latvian National Film Award Lielais Kristaps in the "Best Documentary" category.
In 2008 the President of Latvia, Valdis Zatlers awarded the director of the film, Edvins Snore with the Order of the Three Stars.
In 2009 Edvins Snore for creating the film "The Soviet Story" received the Estonian Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana.

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