Revolution: New Art for a New World
The Russian Avant-Garde, a century on
7.5 / 10
85 minutes
2017-03-08
English
GB
Actors :
Tom Hollander, Matthew Macfadyen, Eleanor Tomlinson, James Fleet, Daisy Bevan, Sean Cronin, Alex Enmarch, Ernest Gromov, Tom Rose, Andrei Konchalovsky, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Zelfira Tregulova
Description
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.