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BLACK RUSSIANS

    THE RED EXPERIMENT   

feature-length documentary, currently in post-production

Black Russians: The Red Experiment,  Part One, Documentary Trailer
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Black Russians: The Red Experiment is a feature-length documentary revealing the little-known story of how a small group of African-Americans left the United States to seek a better life in the most unlikely of places — Stalin's Soviet Union. Told through the narratives of their living descendants in Russia and the United States, Yelena Khanga (Moscow), MaryLouise Patterson (New York) and others, the film also  includes interviews with notable historians and activists such as Harry Belafonte, Jelani Cobb and Maxim Matusevich. 

 

CUNY TV Interview with the Director, Yelena Demikovsky

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Production Team

PRODUCER

Sam Pollard

DIRECTOR

Yelena Demikovsky

DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Piero Basso (New York) 

Mko Malkhasyan (New York)

Yulia Galochkina (Moscow) 

EDITORS

Melody London

Xiaoxiao Chen

Francesca Mor

MARKETING

Nigel Edwards 

PROJECT ASSISTANT

Melissa Espinosa

PROJECT CONSULTANT

Pr. Maxim Matusevich (Seton Hall University)

ARCHIVISTS

Jane Gorjevsky (US)

Denis Fedorin (Russia)

TRANSLATION/SUBTITLES

Jane Gorjevsky

Anna Braico

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