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The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun (2015)
Directed by Anton Vidokle
Documentary · 34m
The second installment of Anton Vidokle’s trilogy on Russian cosmism, The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun, looks at the poetic dimension of the solar cosmology of Soviet biophysicist Alexander Chizhevsky. Shot in Kazakhstan, where Chizhevsky was imprisoned and later exiled, the film introduces Сhizhevsky’s research into the impact of solar emissions on human sociology, psychology, politics, and economics in the form of wars, revolutions, epidemics, and other upheavals. It aligns the life of post-Soviet rural residents and the futurological projects of Russian cosmism to emphasize that the goal of the early Soviet breakthroughs aimed at the conquest of outer space was not so much technical acceleration, but the common cause of humankind in their struggle against the limitations of earthly life.
Cast
Kristina Isaykina
Crew
- Director
- Anton Vidokle
- Writer
- Anton Vidokle
- Director of Photography
- Ayman Nahle
- Editor
- Adam Khalil, Meggie Schneider
- Producer
- Anton Vidokle, Sergei Gooleikov
Details
- Release date
- 2015-07-28
- Runtime
- 34m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Kazakhstan, United States of America, Russia, Germany
- Production
- Haus der Kulturen der Welt