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From the East

1993 · 115 min Documentary
6.9 / 10 · TMDB

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.

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Original Title D'Est
Year 1993
Country Belgium, France, Portugal
Genre Documentary
Director Chantal Akerman
Runtime 115 min.
Rating TMDB: 6.9/10 (29 votes)

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Akerman constructs a visual meditation, relying on deliberate tracking shots, circular pans, and domestic tableaux. She explores the weight of history not through narration, but through the accumulated texture of faces, landscapes, and silent interiors.

What lingers after the final frame is the profound sense of a world suspended between a fading past and an uncertain future, a feeling etched into the very grain of the film. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Chantal Akerman

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