The Vanished Empire
Jul. 10th, 2009 06:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Lidia Milyuzina and Alexander Lyapin in "The Vanished Empire."
Rites of Passage Through the Rolling Stones and Fallen Civilizations
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: July 10, 2009
Like teenagers everywhere, Sergey Narbekov (Alexander Lyapin), a headstrong 18-year-old student in 1973 Moscow, whose growing pains are chronicled in Karen Shakhnazarov’s beautiful film “The Vanished Empire,” is drawn by the lure of the forbidden. For Soviet youth in those days, the hottest contraband items, furtively traded in an open-air black market periodically raided by the police, are rock albums from the West. More
