“I need to recover that world in order to change this one”, says Laura. She then searches through memories, letters, friends; the piano, the mountain, the snowy landscape where she was born, the house where her adoptive mother, Yenia Dumnova, once lived—and died. A retrospective journey, a brave act of emotional and historical reconstruction pieced together from fragments, memory, documents, and fiction. All the while, she unravels Yenia’s secret story.
Programming
21st Ficdh
Un mundo recobrado
A Brave Old World
International Feature Films Official Competition
Argentina in co-production with Uruguay / 2025 / 74 min. / Documentary
Rated: Suitable for all audiences
Language: Spanish
Thematic: Borders, Dictatorships, Migrants
Section: Memory
Director: Laura Bondarevsky
Contact: laurayyo@hotmail.com
Dates, times and locations:
Saturday June 14 / 6 pm / El Cultural San Martín
Synopsis:
Trailer
Curatorial note:
The story of a Russian lady who falls in love with an Uruguayan Maxist intellectual helps revisit the struggles of the Tupamaros and the Chilean revolutionaries until Pinochet´s coup, which foreshadows the return of the far right that our country and others are witnessing today.The two protagonists of this story, which begins with a tragedy, are the Russian Yenia and Laura Bondarevsky herself, portrayed by actress Veróniza Gerez. This beautiful fiction, based on real events, seeks to recover the 1970s, when Latin America was a territory of revolutionary struggles. Julio Santucho
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