Sisters From Siberia
Price: NZ$35.95
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Format: DVD
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Duration: 115 mins
Year: 2009
Rating: Exempt
In 2006, Wellington City Councillor Stephanie Cook succeeds, after some difficulty, in adopting two sisters from a children's home in Siberia. Katya is nine and Nadya four when they arrive to start a new life in the suburb of Aro Valley.
Over the next two and a half years we watch as the girls face the challenge of coping in a foreign environment, learning a new language and bonding in a family unit with their adoptive solo mum. As they do so we encounter other members of Wellington's colourful Russian community, including a ship jumper who is now a social worker and versatile performer at the Russian Club, and an 84-year-old violin and yoga teacher whose parents were White Russian refugees. Stephanie is committed to ensuring that her daughters grow up with a strong sense of their cultural heritage. But as they become Kiwi kids, are Katya and Nadya poised to leave their Russian identity behind?
SKU 027006
Director: Russell Campbell
Producer: Russell Campbell
Writer: Russell Campbell
Editor: Russell Campbell
Camera: Russell Campbell & Shane Loader
Sound Mix: Stephen Upston
Colour Grade: Shane Loader
Featuring: Stephanie Cook, Katya Cook, Nadya Cook, Yuri Ishanin, Vladimir Zvegintsev, Tatiana Zvegintseva, Larissa Quinn, Tania Dyett, Aleksandra Roudova, Inna Palmer, Camille Wrightson, Alexey Medvedev, Kalinka Ensemble
Price: NZ$35.95
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