Bravo to filmmakers Rosenbaum and Feig! "Bye-Bye Babushka" is a gem, a work of heartbreaking, awe-inspiring realism. A life spent toiling under Soviet rule, the film says, is surely worth lamenting. But to count such a life as pitiable is to overlook the courage, perseverance, and quiet dignity that more properly define it. More than any traditional mark of greatness, sometimes survival, itself, deserves our utmost admiration.
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The best documentary I have seen in ages. period.
ericrichard9 December 1999
What a film! Oh my god. Did anyone else see this on channel 13 when I did? A film which on the surface appears to be the simple chronicle of a group of aged Russian women. We follow them in their daily lives- some are farmers, some are activists, some are still staunch Leninists. By the end of the film one realizes that what you have been watching is the glorification of the human being- faulted, struggling and eventually glorious just because we survive. I can't say enough good things. I was so moved.
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