Latest Issue. Past Issues. This article is from the archive of our partner. The result was This Is Russia! Included in that tour: the site of the Winter Olympics, where there are women.
The narrator of the film, Carey Wilson , spends its duration pretending that he is Feder, and that the footage you see is what he himself shot. Their voices are clearly American-overdubs, complete with fake accents.
The narrator asks Ms. Sochi why women are doing the work. Offered the chance to see a performance he apparently invites Ms. Sochi, who comes in her stead. Eventually, he notices fishermen staring at something. It's a girl in a bikini!
Feder's vacation is saved. Sochi takes him to a flower market somewhere in town. It's not clear where this is, but it may be this marketplace. There they sell "Sochi's famous flowers," that the many Soviet visitors haven't seen before. And given that everything else on their state-sponsored vacations are free, all that people can spend money on are those flowers. Then a potato truck pulls up, and villagers start grabbing potatoes.
Sochi "isn't happy" that the guest is filming the potatoes. Feder, the flowers make better pictures," the American pretending to be a Russian tells the man who is narrating but who isn't actually Mr. This is some subtle propaganda.
