Is It Easy Being Young? 2011

In 1986, Juris Podniek made a movie "Is It Easy To Be Young" about young people living under the Soviet regime, about their relationship with parents, teachers and society, about drugs etc. 25 years later we also meet young people who’ve made their first independent steps in life: a lawyer - Russian Fascist, an anti-Fascist, young member of The National Bolshevik Party and a member of The Pro-Putin movement, environmental activist, lesbian couple with children and others are talking about their life expectations and plans for future. Our film is believed to be a mirror, reflecting the problems young people have to face these days...