Name: Bread and Salt
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 1 h 35 min

A klutzily earnest early-1990s documentary on the changes in Russian society around the time of perestroika, Bread and Salt is hosted and narrated by Irina Muravyova, who emigrated to Boston in the middle-1980s and returned in 1991 with scholar Richard Lourie. She marvels at the changes in the society, visits her mother's grave and meets her friends, sees a faith healer outside Moscow and generally just observes. She's a fairly melodramatic host. Lourie is more fun, but we see less of him. The documentary is educational but scarcely riveting.

The documentary is a form of non-fiction storytelling that aims to present factual information, insights, and perspectives on real-world subjects, events, issues, or people. Documentaries can cover a wide range of topics, including history, science, culture, social issues, nature, biographies, and more.

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