1917: The Real October

1|2017|1h 30m| DE

Overview: 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.

Genres: Documentary, Animation, War

Director: Katrin Rothe

Votes: 1

Production Companies:

Katrin Rothe Filmproduktion

Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion

Maxim Film

SRF

RBB

ARTE