Svetlana BASKOVA Светлана БАСКОВА Svetlana BASKOVA   Russia, 2012, 100 mn  Colour, fiction

For Marx ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ За Маркса    Pour Marx  Za Marksa

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Plot synopsis

This film is about a factory worker, who has organized an independent trade union with his comrades to help workers defend their rights; but under threats, blackmailed and by virtue of other circumstance he becomes a traitor for the people who trust him, and pays for it with his life. The plot is based on real events of today’s crisis, when production owners solve their problems on the back of the workforce, which has recently become impoverished. The idea consists in the display of the duality of the Russian character, which paradoxically merges cruelty and complacency, fidelity and treachery, envy and mutual help. The film presents a cultural reflection on Russia’s modern condition in view of its history and the spiritual baggage that has accumulated over several generations.

 

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Commentaries and bibliography

Svetlana Baskova: For Marx (Za Marksa, 2012), Polina BARSKOVA, kinokultura.com, 2013

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Subversive Film Festival, Zagreb (Croatia), 2013

- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 2013

- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2013

- Author Cinema Festival "Polnyy arthouse", Chelyabinsk (Russia), 2013

- International Festival-Workshop of Film Schools, “Kinoproba”, Yekaterinburg (Russia), 2012

- International Festival of Independent Film "Deboshirfilm - Pure Dreams", St Petersburg (Russia), 2012

- Annual award of the Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics, Moscow (Russia), 2012

- Window to Europe Film Festival, Vyborg, Vyborg (Russia), 2012

- International Film Festival : Pacific Meridians, Vladivostok (Russia), 2012

- Independant European Film Festival VOICES, Vologda (Russia), 2012

- International Kansk Video Festival, Kansk (Russia), 2012

- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2012

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