One Man Dies a Million Times [In-Person Only]
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$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 Member
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About
(Jessica Oreck, Russia & US, 2022, 92 min, in Russian with English subtitles)
** This film will never be streamed online; it can only be seen in cinemas. **
Alyssa and Maksim both work at the Institute of Plant Genetic Resources in the center of the city. The Institute houses the world’s first seed bank—an irreplaceable trove of living genetic diversity which holds the potential to transform modern agriculture.
The two young botanists fall in love as the world wages war around them. A record-breaking, desperate winter sets in and the city slowly, painfully, begins to starve to death. Savagery transplants civility. Maksim and Alyssa defend the seed bank and its priceless collection of edible specimens from the starving masses of the city, the enemy, hordes of rats, and each other.
Part documentary, part legend, One Man Dies a Million Times is the true story of the seed bank and the botanists who worked there throughout the Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944). Though the characters portrayed in this film actually lived, and the events they experienced actually happened, this is not a reenactment. Director Jessica Oreck (Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo) and cinematographer Sean Price Williams (Good Time) artfully transplant their narrative from 1940s Leningrad to a science fiction-inflected modern day.
“Jessica Oreck brings furious historical research and anguished empathy to the scientists’ struggle to survive and to protect the inestimable treasures that would nourish future lives…” – Richard Brody, The New Yorker
“A haunting meditation on the nature of humanity and how to survive our own downfall.” – Christopher Reed, Hammer to Nail
