RESILIENCE: How to Live 100 Russian Years - Exeter College

In 1917, Russia was wracked by revolution, famine, war, and unrest. And yet, all that year children were born. Resilience is a film about some of those children, 100 years later, and their remarkable life stories. The 25-minute film is in Russian with English subtitles.

To capture the film, three journalists – Paul Richardson, Mikhail Mordasov, and Nadya Grebennikova – traveled over 20,000 kilometers around Russia and Eastern Europe interviewing, filming, and photographing 22 Russian centenarians born in 1917. The film was released on November 7, 2017, the 100^th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. A book of the same name, featuring the centenarians’ life stories told largely in their own words, was released in 2018.