A Russian & Soviet Movie Podcast with Ally Pitts
TV & Film:Film Reviews
Alissa Timoshkina, chef, KinoVino supper club founder, and author of Salt and Time: Recipes from a Russian Kitchen joins Ally Pitts to discuss this somewhat notorious drama from the late 1980s glastnost period a few years before the Soviet Union collapsed.
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Expect SPOILERS from about 55 minutes in until the end.
CONTENT WARNING: During the film it is revealed that one of the characters had a sexual relationship with an adult when they were 15 or 16 years old. There is also a fairly explicit sex scene.
Little Vera stars Natalya Negoda, Andrey Sokolov, Yuri Nazarov, Lyudmila Zaytseva, and Alexandra Tabakova.
Check out Alissa's amazing culinary creations at: www.instagram.com/borsch_and_no_tears/
Listen to her podcast MotherFood: www.podchaser.com/podcasts/motherfood-1073298
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The show's intro music is Cold by Sasha Ilyukevich and the Highly Skilled Migrants.
You can find more of their music at: https://thehighlyskilledmigrants.bandcamp.com/ or on Spotify.
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