In her public persona, Eleanor “Tussy” Marx was a translator, actress, a children’s rights activist and a persuasive labour organizer, a tireless powerhouse determined to carry on her father’s work. She held her own with twentieth century gods, including both her father and his colleague Engels. In her privately life, however, she was vulnerable and her attraction to the self-indulgent and self-important Edward Aveling led her into misery and ultimately proved fatal.

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

In Portugal, during the night of April 24-25, 1974, a peaceful uprising put an end to the last gover...

January 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish docto...

In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college profess...

An exploration of Ted Kaczynski's life in Lincoln, Montana in the years leading up to his arrest as ...

A staged cinematic parable, it presents in symbolic images a painful diagnosis of Poles' sense of id...

In 1979 Cuba, flamboyant gay artist Diego attempts to seduce straitlaced David, an idealistic young...

Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 p...

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and rom...
In the spring of 1945 the war is still going on, but in Bulgaria the communists have already seized ...

October 1918: Karl Liebknecht is released from prison and Berlin workers celebrate his release. Alth...

Kirill, a 19 year old boy whose father works as a construction director, wants to study filmmaking.

Hussein Erkenov's courageous and stinging indictment of communism. Five young Red Army recruits stru...

A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice ...

In a Canadian mountain resort, Vixen resides with her naive pilot husband. While he's away flying in...

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

After the war, in Bucharest, a young Romanian poet arrested for having written an article denouncing...

In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and h...

Four lucid grandmothers tell their story forgotten by history: the militancy and resistance of the y...