Pavel Medvedev documentaries traverse a very different terrain – the landscape of post-Soviet Russia. Tonight the Gene Siskel screens four of his films, which provide different perspectives on some of the more isolated aspects of contemporary Russian life.

For WBEZ, Eight Forty-Eight’s film critic Jonathan Miller has this preview.
Screening:
On the Third Planet from the Sun: The Films of Pavel Medvedev
Tonight at 6
Gene Siskel Film Center

Music Button:   Jimi Hendrix, “Third Stone from the Sun”, from the CD Are You Experienced? (MCA)