1917: The Real October (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.

Released Oct. 9, 2017 90 min 3+

Genres: Animation, Biography, Documentary, War

Keywords: imdb.february, imdb.year-1917, imdb.october, imdb.avant-garde, imdb.russia, imdb.revolution, imdb.stop-motion-animation, imdb.history-documentary

Production Companies: Katrin Rothe Filmproduktion, Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, Maxim Film, SRF, RBB ARTE

Country: Germany
Production Countries: Switzerland, Germany
Languages: German