The empire fell, but the ghosts stayed. 30 years later, who's really winning?
Thirty years ago, in 1991, the Soviet Union, founded in 1922, disappeared, giving birth to fifteen new states, located between the Baltic Sea and the Pamir mountain range, which went their own way. How many of these republics have succeeded? How much real influence does Moscow exert over them? What role do NATO and the European Union play in this very complicated economic and political maze?
Direction
Dual directors somehow make bureaucracy bingeable.
Editing
75 minutes covering 15 countries? Tight. Ruthless. Respect.
Director
Michael Schmidt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
2021 release means it filmed right before Russia's 2022 invasion—making every 'will they, won't they' tension hit different now.
The '0.0' TMDB rating with zero votes is perfect metaphor: nobody rates the post-Soviet space, but everyone's shaped by it.
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