ABOUT

The Right to Memory is a documentary portrayal of Arseny Roginsky (1946-2017), one of Russia's greatest minds, historian, dissident, former political prisoner, human rights advocate, the head and co-founder of Memorial.

In a captivating monologue, Roginsky reflects on his life and Russia’s past, present, and future. Only once in his life he agreed to share on film his innermost thoughts about his birth in the Gulag and the death of his father in Stalin's prison. In the final chapters of the film, Roginsky analyzes the mechanism of state terror, the role of historical memory, and the reason why his compatriots prefer not to remember the country's totalitarian past.

Monologue ARSENY ROGINSKY
Director LUDMILA GORDON
Cinematography MIKA ALTSKAN
English translation ALEXANDER ALTSKAN
2018, 96 min.