Revolution: New Art for a New World

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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  Tom Hollander

  Kazimir Malevich (voice)
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  Matthew Macfadyen

  Vladimir Lenin (voice)
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  Eleanor Tomlinson

  Lyubov Popova (voice)
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  James Fleet

  Wassily Kandinsky (voice)
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  Daisy Bevan

  Varvara Stepanova (voice)
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  Sean Cronin

  Sergeant Berman
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  Ernest Gromov

  Officer Vorontsov
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  Andrei Konchalovsky

  Self