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A RETROSPECTIVE OF GUNILLA BRESKY FILMS  

“RUSSIA PLAYED A HUGE ROLE IN MY EVOLUTION AS A FILM DIRECTOR.”

GUNILLA BRESKY

Journalist, documentary film director and producer  

Gunilla Bresky’s films hold multiple awards and Grand Prix from film festivals in Europe and Russia. 

Gunilla made her debut documentary, Ekaterina The Junior, in Arkhangelsk in 1996. Now, her “Russian series” includes eight documentaries and one live action short film, united by the theme of little known pages and heroes of World War II. Dear Vera tells about the tragic fate of a female participant in the guerilla movement in a polar area, Blood Road about the Soviet prisoners of war on a railroad construction site in Norway, Night Witches about the legendary female pilots in Night Bomber Regiment, Under A Rusty Star about a search party conducting excavation on the burial sites near Murmansk for further burial of soldiers, and I Stop Time about the renowned wartime cameraman Vladislav Mikosha. Gunilla’s recent requiem documentary K-141 worships the memory of the Kursk submarine crew.