| Brief Description: | Glasnost Film Festival Vol. 12: Are You Going to the Ball? and
Tomorrow Is a Holiday. What is the price young athletes pay for their
fleeting celebrity? Are You Going to the Ball? takes an unprecedented
look at one of the Soviet Union's most sacred institutions: its
world-famous women's gymnastic team. "It seems to me I gave up all my
health for gymnastics," a former champion says in the film, "My entire
body is in pain, and now my time is over." Directed by Nadezhda
Khvorova, 1987, 28 mins. Tomorrow Is a Holiday looks at women whose
job is to stuff live chickens into metal containers. The camera
observes there is not much difference between the executioners and
their victims. The workers' dorms are utilitarian lodgings, sort of
containers for people. The women, enraged by their abnormal living
conditions, "keep singing songs to avoid crying or swearing." Directed
by Sergei Bosukovsky, 1987, 18 mins. Russian with English subtitles. |
