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Perestroika

Play trailer Poster for Perestroika 2009,  1h 56m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 54% 13 Reviews Tomatometer 33% 50+ Ratings Popcornmeter
54% Tomatometer 13 Reviews 33% Popcornmeter 50+ Ratings
A Russian astrophysicist returns to Moscow to give a speech and must deal with the many changes to the country.

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Chris Darke Sight & Sound Jul 6, 2018
Turner cumulatively generates an intense, enveloping psychic climate that we inhabit physically, and which demands to be experienced in the cinema for its full effect to be felt. Go to Full Review
V.A. Musetto New York Post Apr 17, 2009
2/4
Perestroika races back and forth between the Soviet past and non-Communist present. The result is highly personal, talky, clunky and somehow engrossing. Go to Full Review
Nathan Lee New York Times Apr 17, 2009
2.5/5
Perestroika is a curious combination of documentary and fiction, politics and science, sophisticated structure and incompetent drama. Go to Full Review
Avi Offer NYC Movie Guru Apr 20, 2009
5.75/10
Has stylish visuals and a provocative, imaginative screenplay, but occasionally drags and feels convoluted with too many irritatingly awkward moments that lack an emotional core. Go to Full Review
Ron Wilkinson Monsters and Critics Apr 17, 2009
5/10
Too much science-babble obscures the truth of Perestroika. The tragedy of the aftermath would have made a better story unvarnished. Go to Full Review
Phil Hall Film Threat Apr 17, 2009
1.5/5
The Russians have a word for it: Nyet. Go to Full Review
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Slava Tsukerman

Director

F. Murray Abraham

Prof Gross

Mariya Andreeva

Elena

Sam Robards

Sasha

Jicky Schnee

Jill

Ally Sheedy

Helen

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Movie Info

Synopsis A Russian astrophysicist returns to Moscow to give a speech and must deal with the many changes to the country.
Director
Slava Tsukerman
Producer
Slava Tsukerman, Nina V. Kerova
Screenwriter
Slava Tsukerman
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 20, 2009, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 22, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$21.7K
Runtime
1h 56m
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