Revolution: New Art for a New World

• 7.5 Documentary
• 2017-03-08
• 85 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Tom Hollander (Kazimir Malevich (voice)) Matthew Macfadyen (Vladimir Lenin (voice)) Eleanor Tomlinson (Lyubov Popova (voice)) James Fleet (Wassily Kandinsky (voice)) Daisy Bevan (Varvara Stepanova (voice)) Sean Cronin (Sergeant Berman) Alex Enmarch (Nikolay Punin) Ernest Gromov (Officer Vorontsov) Tom Rose (Gustav Klutsis - Prisoner) Andrei Konchalovsky (Self)

Director:

Margy Kinmonth

Writer:

Margy Kinmonth