The Ballad of Bering Strait

Name: The Ballad of Bering Strait
Genre: Music, Documentary
Released: February 19, 2003
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 49

2003

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Emerging Pictures | Release Date: February 19, 2003

Summary: A cinema-verite film following seven Russian teenagers who have come to America to become country music stars. (Emerging Pictures)

Director: Nina Gilden Seavey

Genre(s): Music, Documentary

Runtime: 98 min

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Rita Kempley

It isn't wildly imaginative, but its subjects are novel enough in their own right. They're a little bit country and a little bit Rachmaninoff. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Pleasant if slightly pokey documentary. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

What makes the story worthwhile is the candor and personality of the band members. Read full review

Laura Sinagra

Echoes the trajectory of the post-Communist-bloc region itself, unmoored and at the mercy of pitiless capitalist forces. Read full review

Megan Lahmann

Little is made of the cultural fusion aspect of their story, and ultimately the struggle-for-success tale is as homogenized as the music. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

While the film frequently concentrates on the wrong story, the humanity of the musicians comes through in their own words and actions. Read full review

Desson Thomson

The documentary never gets more than skin deep. It rarely delves into the troubling regions that are the very orchards of documentary. Read full review

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