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.

• DirectorKatrin Rothe
• Release9 October 2017
• Genre
  Documentary / Animation
• Duration1h 30m
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  Katrin Rothe Filmproduktion, Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, Maxim Film, SRF, RBB, ARTE