Film
The Event
- 7PM
Loznitsa’s found-footage documentary is a time capsule charged with the live-wire urgency of the present. Assembled from black-and-white archival material shot on the streets of what was then Leningrad, The Event transports audiences back to the historic attempt in 1991 by Communist dissidents to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. In anticipation of the 25th anniversary of this failed coup d’etat, Loznitsa constructs an immersive look at the revolutionary fervor and mass confusion surrounding the protests, which hastened the dissolution of the Soviet Union later that year. The result is an unforgettable rumination on the roots of social turmoil and the power of collective memory.
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