Friday, May 18
7PM
THREE COMRADES (Netherlands, 99 min, 2006)
dir Masja Novikova
Three friends — Ruslan, Ramzan and Islam — cruise the streets of the
Chechen city of Grozny at the start of the 1990s with their car radio
playing at full blast. A few months later, Ruslan is arrested and executed. Ramzan is the next one to die when he is killed during an
air strike. Islam survives to tell the tale of remarkable friendship
and senseless destruction. Followed by a debate with Almut Rochowanski, coordinator of Chechnya Advocacy Network; and Aset Chad, pediatric nurse and former resident of Chechnya
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