1917: The Real October

The story

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.

Cast

M Maximilian BauerWladimir Majakowski (voice) H Hanns ZischlerAlexander Benois (voice) M Martin SchneiderMaxim Gorki (voice) I Inka FriedrichDokumentarfilmerin (voice) C Claudia MichelsenSinaida Hippius (voice)