Oscar
Directed By: Evgeny Tsymbal /
90 Minutes
Russia, Germany /
2018 /
Russian (English Subtitles)
Documentary / Biography
Territory Rights: WORLD-WIDE
Exhibition Format: DCP
Original Title: Oskar
Synopsis
Oskar Rabin was an organiser of the dissident Bulldozr Exhibition, an unofficial art exhibition on a vacant lot in the Belyayevo urban forest by Moscow avant-garde artists on September 15, 1974. The exhibition was forcefully broken up by a large police force that included bulldozers and water cannons This is considered the most effective action of the civil disobedience in the USSR. Shortly thereafter, he was exiled from the USSR together with his wife, a painter too, Valentina Kropivnitskaya. You can watch the trailer about life and works of Valentina here In search of a lost paradise.