A film ‘twin’ to the novel My Life as a Russian Novel, this documentary charts Carrère’s journey to Kotelnitch, a town some 800 km east of Moscow, as he investigates what happened to a Hungarian POW, and then the young Ania. Through exploring the lives of others the writer finds the courage to tell his own story.
30th August 2003
22 years ago
1 hour 45 minutes
Finishes at 9:28pm
1 win
7/10
70%
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