Aleksey FEDORCHENKO
Алексей ФЕДОРЧЕНКО
Alekseï FEDORTCHENKO
Russia, 2014, 113mn 
fiction
Angels of Revolution
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Ангелы революции

 

 Les Anges de la Révolution

 Angely revolucii

Other titles : Ангелы и революция
 
Directed by : Aleksey FEDORCHENKO (Алексей ФЕДОРЧЕНКО)
Writing credits : Denis OSOKIN (Денис ОСОКИН)
 
Cast
Konstantin BALAKIREV (Константин БАЛАКИРЕВ) ...Nikolay
Georgi IOBADZE (Георгий ИОБАДЗЕ) ...Zakhar
Aleksey SOLONCHEV (Алексей СОЛОНЧЕВ) ...Smirnov
Daria EKAMASOVA (Дарья ЕКАМАСОВА) ...Polina
Oleg YAGODIN (Олег ЯГОДИН) ...Ivan
Pavel BASOV (Павел БАСОВ) ...Pyotr
 
Cinematography : Shandor BERKESHI (Шандор БЕРКЕШИ)
Produced by : Aleksey FEDORCHENKO (Алексей ФЕДОРЧЕНКО), Leonid LEBEDEV (Леонид ЛЕБЕДЕВ), Dmitry_2 VORYEV (Дмитрий_2 ВОРОБЬЕВ)
Production : 29th February Film Company
Film revenue in Russia : 0.0106 million dollars
Spectators : 3 300
Release date in Russia : 05/11/2015
 

Awards :
Best Set Decoration Aleksey FEDORCHENKO , Artiom KHABIBULIN , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2016
Prize Cine-Club Federation of Russia Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2015
Best directing Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2015
Guilde of Russian Director Prize Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2015
Guilde of Russian Director Prize International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2015

Plot synopsis
Five friends – a poet, an actor, a painter, an architect and a primitivist film director – are five red avant-garde artists who try to find the embodiment of their hopes and dreams in the young Soviet state. The Revolution is boiling up like a bottle with apple cider: winged service dogs and heart-shaped potatoes, dead Semashko, the People’s Commissar for Health, and cheerful angels, love for the Tsar and love for the young secretary Annushka, executions and pregnancies – everything is interlaced and inseparable! 1934: the legendary Communist fighter, the beautiful Polina-Revoluzia, is asked by the newborn Soviet government to bring order to the north of the Soviet Union. The shamans of the two native populations, Khanty and Nenets, refuse the new ideology. Polina convinces five of her friends to go with her, former colleagues-in-arms who have now become metropolitan artists: a composer, a sculptor, a theatre director, a Constructivist architect, a famous director. They will have to try and reconcile the culture of the Russian Avant-garde with the Ancient Paganism of the peoples who live in the virgin forest around the great Siberian river Ob. The film is based on a true story.
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2017
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2017
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2016
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2016
- Russian film symposium. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA), 2016
- Festival of Central and Eastern Film , Wiesbaden (Germany), 2015
- Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam (Netherlands), 2015
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2015
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2015
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2015
- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2015
- Göteborg International Film Festival, Göteborg (Sweden), 2015
- Odessa International Film Festival, Odessa (Ukraine), 2015
- Rome Film Festival, Rome (Italy), 2014