Family Portrait in Black and White
Country: Russia & Ukraine. Verzio9 FF Submission. Duration: 01:25:00 Family Portrait in Black and White follows a passionate supermom, Olga, during three turbulent years that see her brood of 17 foster children grow into rambunctious teenagers. Olga does not see the color or creed of her foster...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Russian Ukrainian |
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Ivanov, Boris
2011
Ukraine |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:f871b8d5-f10f-47ed-ade9-0dee1a5b6aec |
| Summary: | Country: Russia & Ukraine. Verzio9 FF Submission.
Duration: 01:25:00
Family Portrait in Black and White follows a passionate supermom, Olga, during three turbulent years that see her brood of 17 foster children grow into rambunctious teenagers. Olga does not see the color or creed of her foster children, 16 of whom are bi-racial, results of amorous relationships between local Ukrainian girls and African students. She is a loving mother but she is no Mother Teresa. Raised under the Soviet regime, she believes in communal responsibility over individual freedom and runs the family with headstrong determination. As a single mother, Olga fights tooth and nail to keep her family together and to give it strength and support - with sometimes overbearing control. "When the kids grow up, at least they will have a mother to blame for all the failures that will happen in their lives." In many ways, Olga's words sum up the immense value of living with a mother, ideal or not, biological or adoptive, versus being raised in the best orphanage where a child calls every caregiver "a mom" without knowing what a mother is. |
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| Published: | 2011 |