FOR MARX …

Beyond Belonging

A steelworks in the Russian provinces. Workers labouring under already dire conditions face wage cuts and pay-offs. A group of workers employees decide to form a trade union. The factory owner feels more irritated than alarmed – his main preoccupation is an art collection with which he wants to impress western business partners. Eventually unable to ignore the strikes and demonstrations, he orders the eradication of the union leaders. One survivor of the cull has to decide – continue the revolution or accept the rules of capitalism and oligarchy? With reference to the theories of Brecht, Godard and Marx and of Greek tragedy as well, Baskova presents us with class struggle in times of financial crisis.
ZA MARKSA … / FÜR MARX …
RUS 2012 / 106 min
Director: Svetlana Baskova
  • Screenplay: Svetlana Baskova
  • Cinematographer: Maksim Moskin,Igor Antonov
  • Editor: Victoriya Pavlovskaya
  • Cast: Sergey Pakhomov,Vladimir Epifantsev,Victor Sergachev,Lavrenty Svetlichny,Aleksandr Kovalev,Vladimir Yakovlev,Denis Yakovlev,Mikhail Kalinkin
  • Producer: Andrey Silvestrov,Gleb Aleynikov,Anatoly Osmolovsky
  • Production Company: Cine Fantom - Russia,AD Studio - Russia
  • Rights Holder: Antipode Sales - Russia
A steelworks in the Russian provinces. Workers labouring under already dire conditions face wage cuts and pay-offs. A group of workers employees decide to form a trade union. The factory owner feels more irritated than alarmed – his main preoccupation is an art collection with which he wants to impress western business partners. Eventually unable to ignore the strikes and demonstrations, he orders the eradication of the union leaders. One survivor of the cull has to decide – continue the revolution or accept the rules of capitalism and oligarchy? With reference to the theories of Brecht, Godard and Marx and of Greek tragedy as well, Baskova presents us with class struggle in times of financial crisis.
  • Screenplay: Svetlana Baskova
  • Cinematographer: Maksim Moskin,Igor Antonov
  • Editor: Victoriya Pavlovskaya
  • Cast: Sergey Pakhomov,Vladimir Epifantsev,Victor Sergachev,Lavrenty Svetlichny,Aleksandr Kovalev,Vladimir Yakovlev,Denis Yakovlev,Mikhail Kalinkin
  • Producer: Andrey Silvestrov,Gleb Aleynikov,Anatoly Osmolovsky
  • Production Company: Cine Fantom - Russia,AD Studio - Russia
  • Rights Holder: Antipode Sales - Russia