Anatoly Rybakov: The Russian Story

This is a story of a country that has lived through glorious upheavals and dramatic downfalls.This is a story of a nation that for centuries has endured a vicious cycle of repression.This is The Russian Story, a new documentary by Marina Goldovskaya, оne of Russia's most acclaimed documentary filmmakers.The film tells the story of, Anatoly Rybakov, a best-selling Russian novelist. Like a plaster mold, his personal life follows the life story of Russia in the XXth century, the story of a country destroyed in Stalinist purges and in the battlefields of World War II. With Perestroika the calamities seem to have ended. Or haven’t they?