1917 - THE REAL OCTOBER
by Katrin Rothe
synopsis
St. Petersburg 1917. The frontline of the global war is coming closer everyday; people are hungry, worried, 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.
international title: | 1917 - The Real October |
original title: | 1917 - Der wahre Oktober |
country: | Germany, Switzerland |
sales agent: | New Docs |
year: | 2017 |
genre: | documentary |
directed by: | Katrin Rothe |
film run: | 90' |
screenplay: | Katrin Rothe |
cinematography by: | Robert O.J. Laatz, Thomas Schneider, Björn Ullrich, Markus Wustmann |
film editing: | Silke Botsch |
producer: | Katrin Rothe |
co-producer: | Peter Roloff, Werner Schweizer |
production: | Katrin Rothe Filmproduktion, Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Maxim Film |
distributor: | Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG |