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Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 25m.
Synopsis
Drawing on the collections of major Russian institutions, contributions from contemporary artists, curators and performers and personal testimony from the descendants of those involved, the film brings the artists of the Russian Avant-Garde to life. It tells the stories of artists like Chagall, Kandinsky and Malevich - pioneers who flourished in response to the challenge of building a new art for a new world, only to be broken by implacable authority after 15 short years and silenced by Stalin's Socialist Realism.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes86%
Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do.
6 audience votes
Key crew
- Margy KinmonthDirector
- Edmund JolliffeOriginal Music Composer
- Margy KinmonthWriter
Cast
- Tom HollanderKazimir Malevich (voice)
- Matthew MacfadyenVladimir Lenin (voice)
- Eleanor TomlinsonLyubov Popova (voice)
- James FleetWassily Kandinsky (voice)
- Daisy BevanVarvara Stepanova (voice)
- Sean CroninSergeant Berman
- Alex EnmarchNikolay Punin
- Ernest GromovOfficer Vorontsov
- Tom RoseGustav Klutsis - Prisoner
- Andrei KonchalovskySelf
- Mikhail PiotrovskySelf
- Zelfira TregulovaSelf
Stills
Themes
soviet unionartrussian revolution (1917)woman directorpolitical repressionrepression