The Last Bolshevik

IMDb link: 0105618
IMDb rating: 7.8 (771 votes)
Genres: Biography, History, Documentary
Director: Chris Marker
Cast: Leonor Graser, Nikolai Izvolov, Kira Paramonova, Viktor Dyomin and others

Release date: 21 Oct 1994
Release year: 1993
Runtime: 120 minutes
Country: France, Finland
Keywords: director, reference to sergei eisenstein, film director, banned, communism, stalinism, soviet union history, 20th century, ideology, the great purge

Plot:

This documentary tells the story of film director Aleksandr Medvedkin, throughout his life a sincere believer in communism, whose films were repeatedly banned in the Soviet Union. Modern Russian film students express their excitement at seeing his film HAPPINESS for the first time, and his contemporaries shed light on his life and work.

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