- Oct 09, 2017
- 90 min
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Full-HD
1917: The Real October (2017)
St. Petersburg 1917. The frontline of the global war is coming closer everyday; people are hungry, wor-ried, angry. In February the tsar is overthrown. Many artists are euphoric: Revolution! Freedom, finally? No. Starting in October, the Bolsheviks rule by themselves. What were poets, thinkers, and avant-gardists like Maxim Gorky and Kazimir Malevich doing during this drastic change of power? In the film, five of them alight from the director’s piles of books as animated cut-out figures. With their own recorded words in their mouths, they participate in salons, committees, and street riots.
Category
Country
Germany
Switzerland
Companies
Katrin Rothe Filmproduktion
Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion
Maxim Film
SRF
RBB
ARTE
Maximilian Bauer
Wladimir Majakowski (voice)
Hanns Zischler
Alexander Benois (voice)
Martin Schneider
Maxim Gorki (voice)
Inka Friedrich
Dokumentarfilmerin (voice)
Claudia Michelsen
Sinaida Hippius (voice)
