Weiskotten Hall W2

This day and evening long program focuses on two Russian films whose heroic main characters become disabled in the war with Afghanistan. Both physical and psychological disability is explored in these powerful and spiritually uplifting films. A short Q&A with the filmmaker will follow each screening with a panel, between the two films, that includes filmmakers and members of the faculty and staff of SUNY Upstate Medical University, The Consortium for Culture and Medicine, Syracuse University and the Syracuse VA Medical Center, discussing the topic of film representation of disability.

Director Information:

Sergei Govorukhin graduated from Moscow’s Film Academy (script faculty). Among his books are Muddy Continent, No One But Us, and With Me And Without Me. In 1994-2005 Sergei was a war correspondent in conflict areas in Tadzhikistan, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia. He has military awards and was badly wounded in Chechnya in 1995. He created the Rokada Charity Foundation for disabled war veterans. He is also a member of the Commission for Human Rights set up by the order of President of the Russian Federation. As director general of his own Moscow-based production company, Return: 20th Century, Sergei Govorukhin has directed and produced award winning documentaries Cursed And Forgotten (1998), Composition For The Vanishing Topic (2001), as well as a feature No One But Us (2008).

Other Programs In This Series:

Weiskotten W1

Representing Disability in Film