Completed - RUSSIAN - Documentary - 127 minutes
Stalin’s justice. A courtroom drama brought back to life.
Year of production : 2018 Director(s) : Sergei LOZNITSA Writer(s) : Sergei LOZNITSA Producer(s) : - - (Atoms & Void), Peter WARNIER (Wild at Art)
THE TRIAL uses unique archive footage to present one of Stalin’s first show trials as an actor-led theatrical performance in which prosecutors, witnesses, defendants and judges lie to themselves, to the audience and to the world. The film records events in Moscow’s Pillar Hall of the State House of the Unions in 1930, when a group of top ranking economists and engineers is put on trial accused of plotting a coup d’état against the Soviet government.
Country(ies) : NETHERLANDS
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Venice 2018 (Official Selection - Out of Competition)Toronto - TIFF 2018 (Wavelengths)