Utopie Russe/ Russian Utopia

đŸŽ„ Watch full movie in Russian with English subtitles here / Regarder le film complet en russe sous-titrĂ© en français ici.

Moscow 2012, year of Putin’s re-election. For the first time in 15 years, the opposition is rising for political change, starting with the 20-somethings who make up the National Bolshevik party. Their guru: Eduard Limonov –punk poet turned radical leader.

Kolya, Zhenia, Marat, Anya, Shuka and Tvorog come from the provinces of a country destroyed by authoritarianism and brutal capitalism. With no true political platform, and Revolution as their sole religion, they look up to Stalin and Robespierre, the revolutionaries of 1905 and the Che.

Russian Utopia follows them in a historical moment when they can believe, more than ever, that their dreams will meet reality. Immersion in the ironies of a Revolution to come, Russian Utopia unfolds the fantasies and failures of a lost generation.

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ARTDOCFEST Russian Utopia, Utopie Russe

Written and directed by Joanna Dunis & Léa Todorov
Prod.: Rémi Grellety & Raoul Peck, Velvet Film, 2014
DOP: Léa Todorov
Sound: Joanna Dunis
Editing: Isabelle Ingold
Original soundtrack: Julien & Arnaud Momenceau // Wild Track

Official Selection ARTDOCFEST Moscow 2015
Nuit des Idées 2017 x European Lab Winter Forum

Supported by Institut Français – Bourse Louis LumiĂšre, Centre National de la CinĂ©matographie, RĂ©gion Aquitaine and the European Union MEDIA programme