In the late 1980s, an era of great hopes and great disasters for Russia, art proved to be a social barometer, predicting the imminent political upheavals. This film's screenplay was written overnight in February 1991, soon after the World Economic Forum, where Olga Sviblova was asked the question, "What will happen to Russia?", and answered: "A putsch."

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...

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M.C. Escher is among the most intriguing of artists. In 1956 he challenged the laws of perspective w...

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Alan Yentob profiles the most successful female architect there has ever been, the late Zaha Hadid, ...

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Manet is one of the main candidates for the title of the most important artist there has been. As th...

This movement marks the beginning of modern art in Germany. It is the German equivalent of French Fa...

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisi...

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