Released
1917: The Real October
October 9 2017 (about 7 years ago)Rating
10
Based on
1 review
- Director: Katrin Rothe
- Genres: Documentary, Animation, War
- Runtime: 1 h 30 m
- Countries: Germany, Switzerland
- Companies: Katrin Rothe Filmproduktion, Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, Maxim Film, SRF, RBB, ARTE
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.
