SHOULD THE CLOVER RUSTLE IN THE MEADOW… YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO
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the 10th RusDocFilmFest in New York

Diploma of the Tenth Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York (2017) for the best film in the «Russian Literature on the Screen» nomination category.

The Tenth independent documentary film festival RUSDOCFILMFEST-3W has screened 21 documentaries over the course of three days, among them – 16 American premieres from 6 countries. 17 films were screened in the Competition program. 9 film directors from Armenia, Poland, Russia and the U.S. took part in the festival. Among the festival’s guests were American film director Jon Alpert, sixteen Emmy Awards laureate and two-time Academy Award nominee; American film director Kieko Tsuno, Emmy Award laureate; Steven Cymbrowitz, New York State Assemblyman; Paul Litvinov, a famous Soviet dissident; Nina Alovert, well-known photographer; Serge Hollerbach, an academician of the National Academy of Design, and others.

Should the Clover Rustle in the Meadow… Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Director: Nina Zaretskaya
39 min 2012-2016 Russia-USA

This documentary is dedicated to one of the most influential modern-day Russian poets, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who passed away this year in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was one of the few poets politically active during the Khrushchev Thaw in the 1960s; he was the author of the poem Babiy Yar, the first public avowals regarding the Nazi massacre of the Jewish population in Kiev in 1941; he was the author of popular Russian songs and intellectual books… Shot in the Yevtushenko Museum-Gallery in Peredelkino, suburb of Moscow, to the 80th anniversary of the poet, this film takes the form of a monologue in which the poet ponders the most important questions: what is life? and what is death?