From the East

Story

Synopsis

In this incisive dispatch from the newly collapsed Soviet empire, bullet holes from WWII still pockmark the old stone buildings. Akerman journeys from East Germany to Moscow between the late summer and winter of 1993 ('while there’s still time'), chronicling in deliberate tracking shots, circular pans, and domestic tableaux yet another moment of radical upheaval in the 20th-century, the faces and bodies of Poles, Ukrainians, Germans, and Russians weighed down with obedient resignation and uncertainty.

Director

Chantal Akerman

Writers

Chantal Akerman

Language

French

Country

Belgium, France, Portugal

Release date

16 September 1993

Ensemble

Cast

• Natalia Chakhovskaia

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