2023 | Netherlands | Documentary

The Dmitriev Affair

  • English, Russian 96 mins
  • Director | Jessica Gorter
  • Writer | Jessica Gorter
  • Producer | Frank van den Engel

STATUS: Released

This film is currently not available.   

Through a thick layer of snow in the forests of Russia, historian Yuri Dmitriev searches for unmarked and lost graves. His singular efforts have uncovered mass burial sites of those who were killed under Stalin’s “Great Terror” of 1937. With no help from official channels, he traces the dead and rescues their memory from the eternal doom of oblivion. Dmitriev’s riveting story is a tale of one man’s fight against the erasure of history by the state. – Bedatri D. Choudhury

Russia Graves Burial Stalin Terror Rescues Memory Erasure History