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    Goodbye Soviet Union!

    Comedy Drama  / Dir Lauri Randla / Estonia / 2020

    “Randla doesn't need to try very hard, or indeed go very far, to be very funny" CINEUROPA

     

    “With shades of youth classics … Goodbye Soviet Union ups the stakes!" DMOVIES

     

    Synopsis:

    Bittersweet coming-of-age story set against the waning years of the USSR, in Leningrad 3 an idealised Soviet town in Estonia (secret radiation facility included).

     

    Young Johannes, is raised by eccentric grandparents whilst his single political activist mother seeks a better life abroad. The family must unite in their adventure to navigate the turbulent and insecure times and survive no matter how absurd the social and political restrictions may seem.