ViktorDyomin &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:ViktorDyomin @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:57:02 +0200 Le tombeau d'Alexandre [The Last Bolshevik] (Chris Marker, 1993) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-lgdk <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Le tombeau d'Alexandre [The Last Bolshevik] (Chris Marker, 1993)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 25/div div class="occasion" Warsaw Pact/div div class="img" Le tombeau d'Alexandre (1993)/div div class="caption" Still from a Medvedkin film. Silhouettes in light of Lenin and Stalin facing each other are projected above a crowd of people. DP of Le tombeau d'Alexandre: Chris Marker./div div class="txt" A film about communism to commemorate the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact on February 25, 1991 "Alexandre Ivanovitch Medvedkine est le seul cinéaste russe né en 1900. (…) Son énergie, son courage, ses illusions, ses désillusions, ses compromissions, ses bagarres avec les bureaucrates, ses illuminations prophétiques, ses aveuglements, volontaires ou non, son humour indestructible et la lumière déchirante que l’effondrement de l’URSS jette rétrospectivement sur toute sa vie, ce sont ceux de toute une génération, et c’est le portrait de cette génération que j’entends tracer à travers le portrait d’un ami."%20Son%20%C3%A9nergie%2C%20son%20courage%2C%20ses%20illusions%2C%20ses%20d%C3%A9sillusions%2C%20ses%20compromissions%2C%20ses%20bagarres%20avec%20les%20bureaucrates%2C%20ses%20illuminations%20proph%C3%A9tiques%2C%20ses%20aveuglements%2C%20volontaires%20ou%20non%2C%20son%20humour%20indestructible%20et%20la%20lumi%C3%A8re%20d%C3%A9chirante%20que%20l%E2%80%99effondrement%20de%20l%E2%80%99URSS%20jette%20r%C3%A9trospectivement%20sur%20toute%20sa%20vie%2C%20ce%20sont%20ceux%20de%20toute%20une%20g%C3%A9n%C3%A9ration%2C%20et%20c%E2%80%99est%20le%20portrait%20de%20cette%20g%C3%A9n%C3%A9ration%20que%20j%E2%80%99entends%20tracer%20%C3%A0%20travers%20le%20portrait%20d%E2%80%99un%20ami.) ### – press kit (via) A film essay using the life and work of filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin to tell the story of communism. Medvedkin traveled the Soviet Union with his Kinopoezd or Cinetrain (also Agit-train), a moving film production train with the sole purpose to create Agitprop while documenting the Five Year Plan./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #WarsawPact #communism #Agitprop #ChrisMarker #LéonorGraser #NikolaiIzvolov #KiraParamonova #ViktorDyomin #YuliRaizman #MarinaKalasieva #AleksandrMedvedkin #documentary #biography #history #France #Finland #1990s/div /section ]]>

Le tombeau d'Alexandre [The Last Bolshevik] (Chris Marker, 1993)

Feb

25

Warsaw Pact

Le tombeau d'Alexandre (1993)

Still from a Medvedkin film. Silhouettes in light of Lenin and Stalin facing each other are projected above a crowd of people. DP of Le tombeau d'Alexandre: Chris Marker.

A film about communism to commemorate the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact on February 25, 1991

“Alexandre Ivanovitch Medvedkine est le seul cinéaste russe né en 1900. (…) Son énergie, son courage, ses illusions, ses désillusions, ses compromissions, ses bagarres avec les bureaucrates, ses illuminations prophétiques, ses aveuglements, volontaires ou non, son humour indestructible et la lumière déchirante que l’effondrement de l’URSS jette rétrospectivement sur toute sa vie, ce sont ceux de toute une génération, et c’est le portrait de cette génération que j’entends tracer à travers le portrait d’un ami.”

– press kit (via)

A film essay using the life and work of filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin to tell the story of communism. Medvedkin traveled the Soviet Union with his Kinopoezd or Cinetrain (also Agit-train), a moving film production train with the sole purpose to create Agitprop while documenting the Five Year Plan.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #WarsawPact #communism #Agitprop #ChrisMarker #LéonorGraser #NikolaiIzvolov #KiraParamonova #ViktorDyomin #YuliRaizman #MarinaKalasieva #AleksandrMedvedkin #documentary #biography #history #France #Finland #1990s

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