A semi-documentary biography film about the life and work of Soviet film actor Pyotr Aleynikov. Includes newsreels from the 1930s, footage from films featuring Aleynikov and interviews with his closest friends and colleagues.
Direction
Orlov stitches propaganda footage into something unexpectedly human.
Production
Rare 1930s newsreels feel like excavated treasure.
Director
Nikita Orlov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Aleknikov was arrested in 1938 during the Great Purge and died in a Gulag labor camp in 1941—his filmography was suppressed until Khrushchev's thaw.
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