1917: The Real October
Movie| Title | 1917 - Der wahre Oktober |
| User score | 1 |
| Release date | Oct 9, 2017 |
| Genre | Documentary, Animation, War |
| Director | Katrin Rothe |
| Production country | Germany, Switzerland |
| Production companies | Katrin Rothe Filmproduktion, Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, Maxim Film, SRF, RBB, ARTE |
| Run time | 90 min. |
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.
