Completed Films
46 minutes; color & b/w; Russian with English subtitles; digital video; Canada, 2008 (first cut 2005). Dir.: T. Lahusen, T. McDonald, A. Gershtein, A. Nikitin; camera: A. Gershtein.
A film about memory and cinema in central Russia.
56 minutes; color & b/w; Russian with English subtitles; digital video; Canada, 2007. Dir.: T. Lahusen, T. McDonald, A. Gershtein.
A love affair with Komsomolsk-on-Amur, in the Russian Far East, its struggle with the past, and its hope for the future through the eyes of young people, aging Communists, former labor-camp prisoners, and the local avant-garde theater.
20 minutes; color & b/w; Russian with English subtitles; digital video; Canada, 2008 (new cut). Dir.: T. McDonald; camera: A. Gershtein & T. Lahusen.
Women remember a major uprising of 1930 against the collectivization of agriculture in their villages in Riazan province.
59 minutes; color & b/w; Russian with English subtitles; digital video; Canada, December 2008. Dir.: T. Lahusen, T. McDonald, A. Gershtein; camera: A. Gershtein; original music: Timofeyev Ensemble.
A film about Riazan photographer Evgeny Kashirin (1949-2007), who recorded a poignant visual, social, and cultural history of his time and place. A triptych of his work shows a dying rural life, a train crawling from town to town, and the story of a man who traded his wife for a marble statue of Judith.
Directed by Gulzat Egemberdieva. Producers: Thomas Lahusen, Sergei Kapterev, Omurbek Egemberdiev. Camera: Thomas Lahusen & Alexander Gershtein. Color & b/w. HD ,16:9; 19 minutes; Kyrgyz & Russian; English & Russian subtitles. Canada, April 2010.
Former members of the Communist Youth League (Komsomol) from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Ingushetia, and Russia gather to sing their songs in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan in the Summer of 2009