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‘Fragments of Ice,’ About USSR Dreams of a Western Paradise, Drops Trailer Ahead of Visions du Réel World Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)
The film follows a Ukrainian family’s story as they experience the dissolution of the Soviet Union and looks at their dreams of a Western paradise.
Her father, she explains in the voice-over, filmed enthusiastically during his foreign tours with the Ukrainian Ensemble Ballet on Ice as well as moments spent with his family, but never during trips to countries from the Eastern bloc because “they didn’t interest him.” Her initial intention, she explains, was to explore what she calls “this vision of paradise” that her parents and many in the former Soviet bloc had of the West, and how it evolved amid a changing socio-political landscape. On the other hand, she writes in her director’s notes, “the metaphor of ice also works well for the late Soviet period, in which ideological schemes and official principles of social order were detached from real life, as if frozen.
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