Characters & Themes
Santa Barbara (2022) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 2022 · 15 mins · Russian
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- Directed by
- Diana Markosian
- Starring
- Gene Jones, Ana Imnadze
Drawing on the 1980s soap Santa Barbara, the film follows Svetlana, a post‑Soviet Russian mail‑order bride who brings her two children to California to meet a stranger who soon becomes her husband and their father. It blends audition footage, behind‑the‑scenes material, home‑movie archives, scripted scenes and an interview with Svetlana, creating an immersive visual memoir of immigration and memory.
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