Revolution: New Art for a New World (2017)
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.
Director: Margy Kinmonth
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Tom Hollander as Kazimir Malevich (voice) |
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Matthew Macfadyen as Vladimir Lenin (voice) |
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Eleanor Tomlinson as Lyubov Popova (voice) |
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James Fleet as Wassily Kandinsky (voice) |
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Daisy Bevan as Varvara Stepanova (voice) |
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Sean Cronin as Sergeant Berman |
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Alex Enmarch as Nikolay Punin |
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Ernest Gromov as Officer Vorontsov |
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Tom Rose as Gustav Klutsis - Prisoner |
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Andrei Konchalovsky as Self |
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Mikhail Piotrovsky as Self |
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Zelfira Tregulova as Self |
| Directing | Margy Kinmonth | Director |
| Camera | Maksim Tarasyugin | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Edmund Jolliffe | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Margy Kinmonth | Writer |
| Production | Maureen Murray | Co-Producer |
| Production | Margy Kinmonth | Producer |
| Camera | Patrick Duval | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Gennady Nemikh | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Gordon Mason | Editor |