When East Meets West: The 1959 American Exhibit in Moscow I SLICE HISTORY | FULL DOCUMENTARY

Between Stalin's death and the coming to power of Nikita Khrushchev in 1953, relations between the Soviet Union and the United States warmed up. In July 1959, an exhibition presenting The American Way of Life to the Soviet people opened in Moscow. We’ll discover this unprecedented coming together of the East and the West through the eyes of one of the exhibition's American guides, a man by the name of Dan Slobin. Like many other amateur photographers, he established, without really meaning to, a record of his times. Using his photos, we have reconstructed his journey and imagined his thoughts.

Documentary: Snapshot of History EP2: Dan Slobin, an American in Moscow (2017)
Directed by: Jérôme Lambert, Philippe Picard, Jean-Thomas Ceccaldi, Lucie Cariès, Delphine Deloget, Jean-Marie Barrère, Agnès Poirier
Production: Bonne Compagnie/ECPAD

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