Karosta: Life After the USSR
(2024, original release: 2008)

Nonfiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

Details

PUBLISHED
Espresso Media International, 2008
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2024
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (49 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
14846761
LANGUAGE
English
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Title from title frames

The abandoned military port of Karosta, in Western Latvia has seen some of the most influential and disturbing eras of modern times from Russian Tsarist origins, to Nazi and then Soviet occupation. When the Russian army left in 1994 after Latvian independence, Karosta became largely un-inhabited and most structures fell to ruin. In the late 1990s, the area was troubled by high unemployment, street crime and drug problems. This documentary explores how the residents of Karosta have coped throughout the years without infrastructure and order, and examines how community organisation K@2 aims to stimulate positive change by means of art, culture, education+D50, and co-operation to give residents hope of a better future

Film

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Originally produced by Espresso Media International in 2008

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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