Selected by artist and filmmaker Phil Collins and Siniša Mitrović of Shady Lane Productions to complement Ceremony – their major new project for Manchester International Festival, HOME and 14-18 NOW – this season looks at the dynamics of class struggle and the perennial confrontation between the haves and the have nots, a century after the Russian Revolution.
Previously in this season
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Battleship Potemkin
A landmark in the history of cinema, Eisenstein's silent epic was produced to commemorate the revolution of 1905, which paved the way for the later,…
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marxism today (prologue) + use! value! exchange!
A look at the legacy of Marxist ideas in the present day.
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Salt of the Earth
A look at the uprising of Mexican mineworkers in protest against the unbearable conditions they are forced to live in.
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Kuhle Wampe, or To Whom Belongs the World?
This Weimar-era masterpiece is the story of a working-class family’s bare survival in 1930s Berlin.
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The Last Bolshevik
A deeply personal expedition into the history of 20th century communism.
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1917 – The Real October
1917 – The Real October is an animated retelling of the Russian Revolution from the point of view of artists Vladimir Mayakovsky, Alexandre Benoit, Zinaida Gippius, Maxim Gorky and Kazimir Malevitch.