The Prince is Back

The Prince is Back

瑪莉娜.葛多夫斯卡雅Marina GOLDOVSKAYA
1999
  • France
  • United States
59min
Colour
  • Video

The Prince is Back

Synopsis

Eugene Mechersky does not look like a prince at all. From morning to night he works with shovel, hammer and nails to make the former estate of his ancestors- the Meschersky dynasty-livable. Since 1917, the estate has been ransacked by peasants, turned into a camp for political prisoners in the 1930s, and destroyed in 1940 when soldiers blew it up for road construction. Meshersky fights a legal battle to get back the rights to his family’s considerable land holding: a cause filled with controversy in a country where the concept of private property has been forgetten.