Synopsis

Winner of the "Mass Impact Award" at the 2008 Boston Film Festival, 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 …

This new 2 disc set DVD edition features:

a) original feature film (85 mins)
b) bonus interviews and footage (25 mins)
c) director’s statement
d) film booklet

The film is in English with full subtitles in 30 languages: Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chinese (Traditional - Taiwan), Chinese (Simplified - PRC), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

PAL DVD version (Region All / Region 0).

This DVD is licensed to smaller community groups (including schools). The DVD (or segments from it) can be shown internally to audiences of no more than 75 people at a time, at a non-public event, on the premises of the group. The screenings must be free of charge and are for the members of the respective community group.There is no restriction on how often the DVD can be screened internally.

Cast

World renowned scholars and experts on Soviet history, politicians, former Soviet officials, as well as people who had suffered from the Soviet regime, like the Soviet dissident Mr. Bukovsky, survivors of the GULAG and survivors of the horrific Ukrainian famine-genocide. For full details visit www.sovietstory.com.

Festivals

2008 Boston Film Festival (winner Jury Prize: Mass Impact Award)
2008 Baltic Film Festival, Berlin
2008 Black Nights Film Festival, Tallinn, Estonia
2009 Sedona International Film Festival
2009 Politics on Film, Washington D.C.

Production Credits & Notes

Written and directed by Edvins Snore
Narrated by Jon Strickland
Produced by SIA Labvakar
Distributed by Perry Street Advisors LLC
Language: in English (with subtitles in 30 languages)

The Soviet Story is the first film by director Edvins Snore.

Filmed in 7 countries, including Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, France and the UK over 2 years, the director used materials collected during 10 years of research.

The Soviet Story contains a number of unique historical photos, documents and video footage, some of which has never been publicly shown before. Such as, for example, photos taken by Hitler's personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann, documenting Molotov's meeting with Hitler in 1940.

Most of the material comes from the European archives, both in Germany (Bundesarchive), the UK, Latvia, and other countries.

For further information, please visit www.sovietstory.com.