Marina Goldovskaia needs no introduction: she has directed more than thirty documentaries, more than a hundred television programs, and has written six books. Her new documentary, Anatoly Rybakov: The Russian Story, links the post-Soviet present with the tumultuous Soviet past and gives viewers a chance to enjoy a classical cinema verité documentary style, presented in the filmmaker’s favorite genre—a portrait of a contemporary. [...]
Erin Alpert and Alexander Prokhorov, kinokultura.com