Rodion CHEPEL
Родион ЧЕПЕЛЬ
Rodion TCHEPEL
Russia, 2021, 87mn 
documentary
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Бог из машины

 

 God from the machine

 Le Dieu issu de la machine

 
Directed by : Rodion CHEPEL (Родион ЧЕПЕЛЬ)
Writing credits : Artiom EFIMOV (Артем ЕФИМОВ)
Cinematography : Mikhail ORKIN (Михаил ОРКИН)
Sound : Roma BAKHAREV (Рома БАХАРЕВ)
Produced by : Lika BLANK (Лика БЛАНК), Asmik MOVSISYAN (Асмик МОВСИСЯН), Anastasia RYTSINA (Анастасия РЫЦИНА), Aleksandr URZHANOV (Александр УРЖАНОВ)
Companies : ООО "Продюсерский центр Киностудии им. М. Горького" по заказу АО "ТПО "Киностудия им. М. Горького" / "Centre de production du studio Gorki
 

Plot synopsis
The history of the beginning and flourishing of domestic computer technology and cybernetics in the 1950s-1960s. About a utopia that almost came true. Automation and cybernetization were even written into the Third Program of the CPSU in 1961. It was called the "Program for Building Communism", and it promised that in 20 years a communist society would be built in the USSR, free from exploitation, from want, from class contradictions, giving every person every opportunity for creative self-realization, based on the principle "from each according to abilities, to each according to his needs. The creators of this utopia, the carriers of a reasonable creative principle were scientists and engineers-cybernetics.
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Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Movie Night, Different cities (Russia), 2024
- National Documentary Awards : Laurel, Moscow (Russia), 2022