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2Published 1990“…This Ukrainian-US co-production was made with the Soviet Government approval in 1989-90, before the actual breakup of the Soviet Union. The film is a mixture evocative of epics, documentaries, intimate drama, and science fiction centering on Shakurov, a journalist who has just returned from an assignment in Greece to his home in Kiev. …”
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3Published 2004“…In the Polish town of Piatek, someone swears that the center has somehow disappeared, while in Lithuania's "Europos Centro" near Vilnius, one family sees Europe as a "monster" and the downfall of the Soviet Union as their worst misfortune. In the Western Ukrainian town of Rachiv we run into the last remaining Hasid who is buying the newspaper "Center of Europe." …”
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4Published 2004“…That this journey takes the film crew as far East as Ukraine should speak volumes of not only the uncertain legacy left by the dissolution of the Soviet Union, but the even more uncertain one beginning in the era of the European Union.…”