Khrushchev's Son to Speak

Khrushchev's son to speak


When documentary filmmaker John Michalczyk focused his lens on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an important source was a Brown University senior fellow who shares a prominent family name in Soviet history — Sergei Khrushchev.

The son of former Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev will speak this Sunday about his memory of events that took place when Soviet leaders decided to stand down from a generation of conflict with the West.

The event, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Scituate, will raise money for Michalczyk’s series of films on major international conflict-resolution issues, along with celebrating the Berlin Wall’s dismantling.

The schedule includes screen clips from Michalczyk’s film (‘‘Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall’’), which premiered last fall; music from the film’s score by Ralf Yusuf Gawlick of Boston College; an appearance by Boston College conflict-resolution scholar the Reverend Raymond Helmick; plus Khrushchev’s recollection of his father’s perspective on why the wall went up.

Codirector of the film studies program at Boston College, Michalczyk has made eight films in his series. The money raised this weekend will help develop a curriculum so that colleges and think tanks can use the films and an accompanying textbook to study examples in peace-making, high-stakes negotiations, and lasting settlements between seemingly irreconcilable parties.




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