Beyond Belonging

Alpha, 13.04.2014, 20:00
Kino DFM, Frankfurt, 15.04.2014, 20:30

FOR MARX …

ZA MARKSA … / FOR MARX …

A steelworks in the Russian provinces. Workers labouring under already dire conditions face wage cuts and pay-offs. A group of workers employees decide to form a trade union. The factory owner feels more irritated than alarmed – his main preoccupation is an art collection with which he wants to impress western business partners. Eventually unable to ignore the strikes and demonstrations, he orders the eradication of the union leaders. One survivor of the cull has to decide – continue the revolution or accept the rules of capitalism and oligarchy? With reference to the theories of Brecht, Godard and Marx and of Greek tragedy as well, Baskova presents us with class struggle in times of financial crisis.

Russia 2012
106 min, DCP, colour


DIRECTOR
Svetlana Baskova

SCREENPLAY
Svetlana Baskova

CAMERA
Maksim Moskin
Igor Antonov

EDITOR
Victoriya Pavlovskaya

CAST
Sergey Pakhomov
Vladimir Epifantsev
Victor Sergachev
Lavrenty Svetlichny
Aleksandr Kovalev
Vladimir Yakovlev
Denis Yakovlev
Mikhail Kalinkin

PRODUCER
Andrey Silvestrov
Gleb Aleynikov
Anatoly Osmolovsky

PRODUCTION
Cine Fantom, Russia
AD Studio, Russia

SALES
Antipode Sales, Russia

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