A series of movies about the life and work of famed writer Lev Tolstoy. Following the screening, conversation with filmmakers Galina and Anna Evtushenko.
Leo Tolstoy and Dziga Vertov: A Double Portrait in the Interior of the Epoch
In 1910, when Leo Tolstoy died, Dziga Vertov was an unknown 14-year-old boy from Byalistokת who later on developed the concept of a documentary as high art. The film is made as a parallel movement of artistic motivations, outlooks on life and biographies of the two artists.