1917: The Real October

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.

Country:

Germany,

Switzerland

Genre:

Documentary,

Animation,

War

Duration:

90 minutes

Year:

2017

Director:

Katrin Rothe

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Company:

Katrin Rothe Filmproduktion,

Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion,

Maxim Film,

SRF,

RBB,

ARTE

Cast:

Wladimir Majakowski (voice)

Alexander Benois (voice)

Maxim Gorki (voice)

Dokumentarfilmerin (voice)

Sinaida Hippius (voice)

Crew:

Director