A STRUGGLE FOR HOME: THE CRIMEAN TATARS

USA-QA / 2015 / 44’ / HD / English

Mediadante / Paschyn Productions / Directed by Christina Paschyn

Worldwide rights available 

TAGS

Russia, Putin, politics, human rights

SYNOPSIS

For hundreds of years, Crimea was home to the Crimean Tatars, a Muslim-Turkic people. But it changed when the Russian Empire conquered the peninsula in 1783. Since then, the Tatars have struggled to reclaim their home and suffered from a genocide that saw their entire population brutally deported to Central Asia in 1944. When the Soviet Union collapsed, many Tatars thought they finally would be free in their homeland. But in February 2014, those dreams were dashed when Russian President Vladimir Putin re-annexed the peninsula.