Freedom Is Paradise

1989 film directed by Sergei Bodrov

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Freedom Is Paradise (Russian: СЭР, acronym for Свобода Это Раи, Svoboda Eto Rai) is a 1989 Soviet Union film directed by Sergey Bodrov. It won the Grand Prix des Amériques, the main prize at the Montreal World Film Festival, and brought Bodrov international acclaim.^[1]^[2]

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^ Film Studies 1841504963 Intellect Books - 2013 Freedom is Paradise (S.E.R: Svoboda — eto rai, 1989) established Bodrov's reputation internationally.
^ Louis Menashe Moscow Believes in Tears: Russians and Their Movies 098458322X- 2014 p 100 " Freedom is Paradise (1989) is an unadorned look at Soviet society through the eyes of a lad who escapes from his reform school to seek out his father in a distant prison camp."