Short film
The Extraordinary Adventures of Diego Diegovich in The Country of The Bolsheviks
2007 · 39 min
A thoughtful, essayistic documentary that drifts between art history and personal tragedy, rewarding patient viewers with a rich, melancholy portrait.
- Directed by
- Nataliya Nazarova
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Aleksandr Filippenko
- Overview
- The fate of Diego Rivera, a Mexican muralist who glorified the Mexican Revolution with his art, is connected with Russia in many ways. Russian artists Angelina Belova and Maria Vorobyova-Stebelskaya bore him children, for a long time he was friends with Trotsky, joined the Communist Party several times, was friends with Eisenstein, Mayakovsky, Ehrenburg. Finally, it was to Soviet Russia that he came in the last years of his life in the hope of being cured of cancer. This film is about Diego Rivera and how, 50 years later, his legacy is seen.
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- Directed by
- Nataliya Nazarova
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Aleksandr Filippenko
