03.11.2017
A Hellish Chaos: World Premiere
On 15 November, the Mikhailovsky Theatre will be hosting a premiere screening of A HELLISH CHAOS, a film by director Sergey Debizhev. It marks the continuation of a 10-year tradition at the theatre of screening significant new films capable of resonating throughout society.
The film was created to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution. It provides a view from our era of 1917, a year of events that would transform the history of Russia and the world.
„You can’t invent the future: it emerges from historical experience. The most important thing is a harmonious union between a strong state, religion and traditional culture,“ states Debizhev, the creator of the film. In this new work, he presents his view of the events of 1917, and of the roles played in history by Tsar Nicholas II, Lenin, Trotsky, and Parvus, by external and internal conspiracies, the First World War, and history’s first ever „colour“ revolution.
The film draws upon real events, original documentation, and the recollections and inferences of those involved.
In the process of working on the film, Debizhev met with historians, philosophers, political scientists, and Russian émigrés, including Baron Eduard Oleg Alexandrowitsch von Falz-Fein, a resident of Liechtenstein who is now 105 years old and whom Tsar Nicholas II held in his arms when he was a child.
The film sets itself apart for the accelerated tempo of its narrative, an absence of the usual archival devices, and the vivid way in which it conveys information. Debizhev defines the genre of his film as a „documentary blockbuster“.
The film was created to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution. It provides a view from our era of 1917, a year of events that would transform the history of Russia and the world.
„You can’t invent the future: it emerges from historical experience. The most important thing is a harmonious union between a strong state, religion and traditional culture,“ states Debizhev, the creator of the film. In this new work, he presents his view of the events of 1917, and of the roles played in history by Tsar Nicholas II, Lenin, Trotsky, and Parvus, by external and internal conspiracies, the First World War, and history’s first ever „colour“ revolution.
The film draws upon real events, original documentation, and the recollections and inferences of those involved.
In the process of working on the film, Debizhev met with historians, philosophers, political scientists, and Russian émigrés, including Baron Eduard Oleg Alexandrowitsch von Falz-Fein, a resident of Liechtenstein who is now 105 years old and whom Tsar Nicholas II held in his arms when he was a child.
The film sets itself apart for the accelerated tempo of its narrative, an absence of the usual archival devices, and the vivid way in which it conveys information. Debizhev defines the genre of his film as a „documentary blockbuster“.
