Overview

Drawing on the collections of major Russian institutions, contributions from contemporary artists, curators and performers and personal testimony from the descendants of those involved, the film brings the artists of the Russian Avant-Garde to life. It tells the stories of artists like Chagall, Kandinsky and Malevich - pioneers who flourished in response to the challenge of building a new art for a new world, only to be broken by implacable authority after 15 short years and silenced by Stalin's Socialist Realism.

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Cast

Tom Hollander

Kazimir Malevich (voice)

Matthew Macfadyen

Vladimir Lenin (voice)

Eleanor Tomlinson

Lyubov Popova (voice)

James Fleet

Wassily Kandinsky (voice)

Daisy Bevan

Varvara Stepanova (voice)

Sean Cronin

Sergeant Berman

Ernest Gromov

Officer Vorontsov

Andrei Konchalovsky

Self