1917 - Der wahre Oktober 2017

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:

Maximilian Bauer
Wladimir Majakowski (voice) 

Hanns Zischler
Alexander Benois (voice) 

Martin Schneider
Maxim Gorki (voice) 

Inka Friedrich
Dokumentarfilmerin (voice) 

Claudia Michelsen
Sinaida Hippius (voice) 

• 1917: The Real October