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1917: The Real October

10% | Oct 09, 2017 | Documentary, Animation, War

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.

Featured Crew

Katrin Rothe
Director

Cast

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Maximilian Bauer
Wladimir Majakowski (voice)
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Hanns Zischler
Alexander Benois (voice)
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Martin Schneider
Maxim Gorki (voice)
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Inka Friedrich
Dokumentarfilmerin (voice)
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Claudia Michelsen
Sinaida Hippius (voice)

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