1917: The Real October

• Movies
• 2017-10-09
• DE
• Released
• 2h 30m
• Documentary - Animation - War

• 1.0
• 2

Production

Katrin Rothe Filmproduktion, Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, Maxim Film, SRF, RBB, ARTE

Storyline

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.