Kirill and Ksenia Sakharnov lack additional final means to bring their film to life. Through Czech friends, they turned to Post Bellum / Memory of the Nation. Please help them release their documentary that captures the trajectory of a man who has left an eternal imprint on the Soviet dissident movement and the memory of the Czech and Slovak nations.   

 

Fainberg is one of the last living participants of the 1968 Red Square demonstration. Following the demonstration, he spent 5 years and a half in Soviet “special psychiatric hospitals” where he held one of the longest hunger strikes (81 days) of the Soviet dissident movement and managed - through the extraordinary defection of a Soviet psychiatrist - to lead an international campaign from the loneliness of his cell. In late 1973 Fainberg was released without having made any single compromise with the Soviet regime. Victor Fainberg was granted honorary citizenship of the city of Prague (1990), Medal of the President of Slovak Republic (2014) and Gratias Agit award for promoting the good name of the Czech Republic abroad (2018).