| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, January 17, 2013 | 4:00PM - 6:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place |
The Interim Country (A Film About Kyrgyzstan)
Directed by Thomas Lahusen, Gulzat Egemberdieva, and André Loersch.
Narrated by Eugene Huskey and Gulzat Egemberdieva.
47 minutes; English, Kyrgyz and Russian. English subtitles, 2011.
Shot in Spring and Summer of 2010 in Kyrgyzstan, the film chronicles the popular revolt that led to the toppling of president Bakiyev and his clan in April 2010, and the ever-deepening chaos into which the country plunged in its aftermath, culminating with the large-scale inter-ethnic violence in June 2010. Lacking power and legitimacy, and battling its own family network and clan-based divisions, the interim government has had a hard time to stabilize the country politically, economically, and socially. All this is documented through interviews with several top officials, former president Askar Akayev in his Moscow exile, and “people on the street.” From Bishkek to the southern cities of Jalal-Abad and Osh, over the breath-taking highway uniting North and South through the Tian-Shan mountain range, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks, Russians, Meshketian Turks, and a Volga German share their anger, frustrations, and hopes.
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