The Event
Sobytie | Unreleased | Russia
August 1991: a short-lived coup d’état attempts to overthrow Gorbachev and restore communism. Crowds flood the streets and Yeltsin asserts his authority. Loznitsa, a leading exponent of socially-aware documentary filmmaking, revisits a turbulent episode of the end of the USSR and the birth of Russian democracy, with its parallels to the crisis that is currently afflicting his native Ukraine. Exclusive national premiere at Flagey.
Flagey, Cinematek