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In the name of love / a film by Shannon O'Rourke ; producer & director, Shannon O'Rourke ; SOR Productions, Inc.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 020 843
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foreign spouses.
- Mail order brides--Russia (Federation).
- Mail order brides.
- Marriage brokerage--Russia (Federation).
- Marriage brokerage.
- Intercountry marriage--United States.
- Intercountry marriage.
- Single mothers--Russia (Federation)--Economic conditions.
- Single mothers.
- Culture shock--United States.
- Culture shock.
- Women--Russia (Federation)--Social life and customs.
- Women.
- Women--Russia (Federation)--Social conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Manners and customs.
- Russia (Federation).
- Women--Former Soviet republics--Social conditions.
- Women--Russia (Federation)--Economic conditions.
- Women--Former Soviet republics--Economic conditions.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (58 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Subtitle on container: Modern day mail order brides
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles, CA : SOR Productions Inc. ; Harriman, NY : Distributed by New Day Films, [2002]
- System Details:
- DVD-R.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Russia's dismal post-Soviet economy has given rise to widespread alcoholism, depression, and divorce. One consequence is that many desperate young Russian women turn to marriage agencies in a bid to escape--those linking Russian women with "rich" American men are thriving. Filmed principally in St. Petersburg over several years, this film examines the motiviations of two agency heads and follows several of these women as they seek a brighter future. Told from all these women's point of view, this is an often brilliant, funny, and unflinching examination of a cultural reality: the 'mail-order bride' with a clear-eyed certainty about what she is doing, and why.
- Participant:
- Ina Kremert, Lynn Visson, Michael "Mondo" Mondini, Svetlana Zagordnikova, Svetlana Novikova, Elena Voskressenskaya, Mike Potter, John O'Scanlon, Elena Roche, Vladimir Paperny, Warren Roche.
- Credits:
- Executive producer, Sydney Pollack ; editor, Yana Gorskaya ; cinematographer, Sergei Drozdovsky, Chapin Wilson ; composer, Daniel Hulsizer ; translation, Grisha Dimant, Konstantin Evgienko, Nadya Karypkina, Olga Khramova, Andre Koutouza, Inga Sakovich.
- Notes:
- This disc has been recorded using DVD-R equipment and may not play in all DVD players or drives.
- CINE Golden Eagle Award; Best Documentary, Portland Women's Film Festival; Best Documentary, Temecula Film Festival.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.
- OCLC:
- 62330816
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