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CHILDREN IN EXILE

Country of production: USA
Year: 2007
Mins: 60

Direction: Chris Swider
Producer: Chris Swider and Ilko Davidov
Cinematography: Chris Swider
Editing: Ilko Davidov
Music Composed by: Matthew Dallman
Sound: Robert Aquilar


Children in Exile is a documentary about the youngest victims of the repressions carried out by the Soviet Union during the Second World War, the children and teenagers deported to Soviet Siberia and Kazakhstan. These abuses, part of a larger campaign of ethnic cleansing, have never been confronted. No one was put on trial, and no reparations have ever been paid. Americans need to know about these crimes against humanity because their shadow lingers over current events.

Joseph Stalin infamously said that one death is a tragedy, but a million deaths are a statistic. The Soviet Secret Police deported millions, and somehow the world remains indifferent. Children in Exile hopes to challenge this indifference by filling in the human face to this terrible statistic and monumental tragedy.

Chris Swider
MFA in Directing from the Polish National Film School and BA from Columbia College. He teaches directing classes and production workshop classes, as well advising graduate students on their thesis films. Working in the film business in Chicago, he has been an editor, cameraman, writer, and production manager. He has directed narrative short subject films and documentary films, and he produced, wrote, and directed an independent feature film, Selling Short.

GALLERY THEATRE
1112 North Milwaukee Ave., Chicago IL
tel.: 866.466.ARTS

FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2008 at 7:00 pm.

SOLD OUT!

director Chris Swider and Wesley Adamczyk, one of the film's protagonists in person!

SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 2008 at 7:00 pm.

SOLD OUT!

director Chris Swider and Wesley Adamczyk, one of the film's protagonists in person!

ADDITIONAL SCREENINIG!

SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 2008 at 3:00 pm.

director Chris Swider in person!

tickets: $8.00 REGULAR
..............$7.00 STUDENT/SENIOR

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