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2019 | Biography | Education | Film & TV | History & Politics | Humor & Comedy
When the first wave of pirated videotapes from the west reached the USSR in the second half of the 1980s, that stuff was still illegal. If you had money, you still watched it, of course, be it “Commando”, or “The Godfather”, or “Emmanuelle”, or whatever you were lucky to get. Maybe you’d get arrested, maybe you wouldn’t. If you were found out, in most cases that meant prison. But you still watched it – and couldn’t get enough of it.
Being a shy, mild-mannered Jewish boy in a repressed and conservative society dominated by very specific ideas of masculinity was difficult enough. But being one of the first film geeks in a country that never had a word like “geek” in its vocabulary… well, that made life so much more complicated. Hollywood’s fairy tales may offer you shelter from reality, make you forget all the bullying at school, death in the family or the shaky financial situation in the country, but it’s only a question of time until you snap.
“The Geek Who Came from the Cold – Surviving the Post-USSR Era on a Hollywood Diet” is Leon Kaminsky’s second novel – tragicomic, wistful and of course extremely nerdy.
Leon Kaminsky
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| Published by | Bunthorne Press |
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