(1993) English title: The last Bolshevik
Le tombeau d’Alexandre
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Description
Description
Using a portrait of Russian filmmaker the late Alexander Medvedkin, also a personal acquaintance, Marker seeks to investigate the tragedy of this century through a partial rewriting of the history of Russia. He does this in the form of six fictitious video letters to Medvedkin, pausing at important phases in Soviet history – the revolution, the civil war, Stalinist repression, the war and glasnost – to ask what the filmmaker was doing at the time. Includes interviews recorded by Marker on visits to Moscow and clips from Medvedkin’s films.
