“An award winning docu-drama telling the story of the Mennonites’ sojourn in Russia from 1788 to the present. The film features re-enactments of historic events, interviews with witnesses to these events, archival film footage, and culminates with scenes of Mennonite life in the former Soviet Union. These diverse elements are bound together by the question- can faith triumph in the face of great adversity?”
Through the Red Gate: (2008) (50 min.)
“Peter Bargen was just seven-years-old when he and his family narrowly escaped the Russian Gulag and almost certain death. Those relatives who remained in the USSR were not so fortunate. During Joseph Stalin’s reign (1929-1953), between 45 and 60-million people, among them thousands of Mennonites, perished through enforced exile, execution, famine and disease. Now, in a story that crossed continents and binds together generations, the discovery of a cache of rare and long-forgotten letters reveals the terrifying details of the Bargen family’s fate.”