About the Event
This event will begin with opening remarks from Dr. Peter Rollberg, Director of the Russian Language and Literature Program and Professor of Slavic Languages, Film Studies and International Affairs at GW. This event is hosted by the  Petrach Program on Ukraine and the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES).

This screening is held in cooperation with Stand With Ukraine Through Film, a project focused on providing aid to Ukrainians displaced by the war.

Stand With Ukraine Through Film launched in March 2022, soon after Russian tanks began to roll toward Ukrainian cities. The project initially arranged for the screening of The Guide at cinemas in the United States and other countries as a way to demonstrate support for the Ukrainian people, educate the public, and raise funds for humanitarian relief. Almost 700 cinemas joined this effort. The US cinema screenings led to more than $125,000 being donated on behalf of the Ukrainian people, a sum that does not include the funds donated at cinemas in other countries. In 2023, the project expanded to include screenings of The Guide at colleges and universities in the U.S. and other countries. 

About the Film

This prizewinning feature film tells the dramatic story of an American boy who barely survives in Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s. As he accompanies a blind minstrel (kobzar) on his sojourn through the country, ten-year old Peter becomes a witness to the systematic communist assault on traditional Ukrainian culture. “In the eyes of the Soviet state under Stalin, these minstrels and their songs were subversive simply by nature of their existence.” (Peter Tracy)

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