RESILIENCE
In 1917, Russia was wracked by revolution, famine, war, and unrest. And yet, all during that year children were born and raised. Resilience is a film about seven of those children, 100 years later, and their remarkable life stories. The 25-minute documentary film is presented in Russian with English subtitles.
Sponsored by Raiffeisen Bank and over 300 individual crowdfunding backers.
“Our project, The Children of 1917, has been in the works for nearly two years. My Russian collaborators and I traveled over 20,000 kilometers tracking down, interviewing, and filming 22 Russian centenarians who were born in 1917. The stories they shared with us were powerful, intense first-person accounts of the last 100 years of Russian history, and we are eager to share them with the world. The release of RESILIENCE is the first step in that process.”
Paul Richardson, Co-Director, Co-Executive Producer
Creative Team
Executive Producers: Mikhail Mordasov, Paul E. Richardson, Nadezhda Grebennikova
Associate Producers: Alexei and Yulia Bolshakov
Writer-Directors: Mikhail Mordasov, Paul E. Richardson, Nadezhda Grebennikova
Original Score: Andrey Rubtsov
Film Editor: Margarita Zakharova
Sound Editor: Anton Shibanov
Cinematography: Evgeny Mashchenko & Mikhail Mordasov
Translations: Paul E. Richardson, Nadezhda Grebennikova & Nora Seligman Favorov
Sponsored by Raiffeisen Bank and over 300 individual crowdfunding backers.