The russian Avant-Garde, a romance with the révolution
2000
"We all perished, will we ever understand that…" wrote Nikolai Punin, the ideologue of the Russian Avant-garde, in his diary. The Russian Revolution gave birth not only to one of the most atrocious totalitarian regimes the world has ever known, but also to one of the greatest discoveries of modern art: the Russian Avant-garde. Scholars worldwide recognize that Russian art inscribed two remarkable chapters in world art history: the icon and the Avant-garde. Malevich, Tatlin, and Filonov had dedicated themselves to the revolution and the fledgling Soviet state, but they were treacherously betrayed.
Credits
Directed by: Alexandre Krivonos
Image: Sergey Dubrowsky
Sound: Alexey Karpov
Editing: Irina Kiselyova, Marina Kucherova
Music: Gennady Banshikov
Production
Vesterholt Film&TV (Denmark) / Cobra Films / Quadrat Films (Russia)
Co-production
RTBF (Belgium) / AVRO (Netherlands) / DR-TV (Denmark) / NRK (Norway) / SVT (Sweden) / Yle-TVI (Finland)
With the help
Danish Film Institute / Media
Price
FIPA D'OR 2000 Biarritz
Broadcasts
RTBF (Belgium)
La Cinq (France)
DRTV (Denmark)
SVT 2 (Sweden)
AVRO (Netherlands)
RTP (Poland)
TSR (Switzerland)
BBC, Kunstkanaal
Multichannel - Odisseia
ARD/WDR (Germany)
Cinema at noon 2006 at Bozar (Belgium)