When Daniel Edelstyn discovered his grandmother's journals in the attic of his family home, he was inspired. Born into a wealthy and privileged Jewish family in the Ukraine, Maroussia Zorokovich was a writer, dancer and painter before the Bolshevik revolution rewrote her destiny, and the irresistible romance of her life took a powerful grip on Edelstyn. Delving into his family history, he travels to the country of his forebears, and, in the depressed village of Dubouviazovka where his great grandfather's estate was situated, he discovers a vodka distillery his ancestors once owned. Edelstyn has the notion that he could best serve his family's legacy by re-branding the vodka made there in the hope of reviving the village's prosperity. How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire is a dizzying mesh of stories and techniques that ambitiously combines a documentary about entering the alcohol industry, an investigation of one family's history and a recreation of key historical events of the 20th century. It's sincere, charming and inventive filmmaking, with Edelstyn himself at its centre, a man striving to define what his role in all this is, flitting between genealogist, storyteller and businessman. 　　Michael Hayden 　　London Film Festival 　　译文(3): 当丹尼尔·埃德尔斯廷在家中阁楼上发现祖母的日记时，他受到了启【资源囤-ZiYuanTun.Com】。马鲁西亚·佐罗科维奇出生于乌克兰一个富裕而有特权的犹太家庭，在布尔什维克革命改写她的命运之前，她是一名作家、舞者和画家，她一生中不可抗拒的浪漫深深地控制着埃德尔斯廷。深入研究自己的家族历史，他前往祖先的国家，在曾祖父的庄园所在的萧条的杜布维亚佐夫卡村，他发现了祖先曾经拥有的一家伏特加酒厂。Edelsyn认为，他可以通过重新命名当地生产的伏特加来为家族的遗产服务，以期重振村庄的繁荣。《如何重建伏特加帝国》是一部由故事和技巧组成的令人眼花缭乱的作品，雄心勃勃地将一部关于进入酒精行业的纪录片、一个家族的历史调查和20世纪关键历史事件的再现结合在一起。这是一部真诚、迷人、富有创意的电影，以埃德尔斯廷本人为中心，他努力定义自己在这一切中的角色，在家谱学家、讲故事者和商人之间穿梭。