Николай Изволов

1917년 러시아 혁명 이후 시베리아 벌판을 횡단하던 특별한 기차 하나가 있다. 좌석과 침대, 화장실 이외에도 편집실, 현상소, 회의실, 작은 영사실까지 구비된 이 열차는 혁명의 이념을 전파하고 오지의 소비에트 제국 농민들의 현실에 다가가고자 젊은 영화인들이 만든 것이다

The film is based on eponymous play by Nikolay Gogol.

The screen adaptation of the novel by Tadjik writer Sadriddine Aini, telling the story of a tramp who falls in love with a rich girl, was supposed to become the first full-length feature film in Central Asian film history. But the unfinished Dokhunda was banned by the Soviet authorities when film production was already in full swing. No footage survived. This is why Izvolov had to rely on Lev Kuleshov’s draft to study and appreciate the maestro’s vision and the unique aesthetic concept, which was never to be realised during Kuleshov’s lifetime.

A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to the great socialist October Revolution and the final triumph.