What if the revolution they taught you was basically fanfiction?
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revolution of 1917 and, therefore, as one of the men who changed the shape of the world at that time and forever, but perhaps the actual events happened in a way different from that narrated in the history books…
Editing
Juxtaposing Soviet propaganda with messy archival reality.
Direction
Tourbe treats history like a detective story.
Director
Cédric Tourbe
Hervé Pierre
Self - Narrator (voice)
Vladimir Lenin
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Czar Nicholas II of Russia
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Nadezhda Krupskaya
Self - Politician / Lenin's Wife (archive footage)
Leon Trotsky
Self - Politician (archive footage)
John Reed
Self - Journalist (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Cédric Tourbe spent years in Russian archives accessing footage Western historians rarely see.
The documentary reveals how Soviet filmmakers literally re-staged revolutionary events years later, creating 'documentary' footage that fooled historians for decades.
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