"sergey Lenin"

1917 was a year of turbulence – both artistically and politically. It was the penultimate year of World War I, the year of the Russian Revolution, and a year that saw artistic and cultural changes take place. This compilation explores the music inspired by the turbulent times at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Sokurov's film is a new parable about the redistribution of power. The realities of life in the early 20's in Soviet Russia, the easily recognisable faces and personalities of the characters of that period in Russian history are not the subject of this film but only the setting of a narrative, a symbolic means for turning a filmic short-story upside down. The Diseased Leader, his Wife and Sister, the Doctor, the Guards, and the Future Successor are portrayed with documentary precision, as well as with the free abstraction of artistic imagination. It is as though the historical environment were being turned inside out on screen, and the fragments of private life magnified — life drawing to its close… By confronting his disease, the historical personality turns out to be a simple human being, unable to change anything — not the destiny of the country under his rule, not even the destiny of his doomed, failed family, nor his own disintegrating personality.
14 wins & 3 nominations