Filmed over four years in the provincial city of Yekaterinburg, The Last Relic is a stark cinematic portrait of the absurdity of life in Russia where the majority dreams of restoring imperial glory and a handful of opposition activists desperately resists Putin’s relentless march towards a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Two special agents are tasked with protecting the computer programme that runs a future metropolis. However, the ‘Soviet Union’ virus soon starts wreaking havoc. A delirious ride!
It is 1992 and the first free elections held in Estonia since World War II have to the surprise of all brought to power young and idealistic political forces. This is a story about gaining and losing trust, about the widening conflict between idealists and a rising economic elite, when a prime minister’s good options grow fewer by the day.
Georgian environmental activist Dato Chipashvili fights against hundred million investment projects putting the interests of local people and transparency first.
The documentary introduces excerpts of those against the Nicaragua Canal fighting for their human rights, public order, democracy, private property and freedom of expression.
Interview with Dzhokhar Dudayev, the legendary president of the Republic of Chechnya held in the spring of 1995.
Freedom fighter Sergei Soldatov talks about his past, actions against the Soviet power, imprisonment, co-fighters and the situation in the Soviet Estonia in "Eesti Kodu" in Uppsala on November 13, 1981.