The Event

Sergey Loznitsa directs this documentary about the Soviet Union. The film puts us in August 1991 after a failed coup in Moscow led by a group of Communists who ended the Soviet government. In the documentary we will see how the USSR would eventually crumble, Sergei Loznitsa revisits the most dramatic and important moments of that time and tells us how it started developing what we call the birth of Russian democracy. With this documentary seeks to clarify what were the events in Russia really, trying to discern what became propagandistic information with intent to mislead the citizens of the moment. What really happened in Leningrad? What events occurred around the White House in Moscow? Was it really true birth of modern democracy?

• Documentary
• History