100 Years of the October Revolution
Родина / Russian Roulette by Anna Yunysheva and Bert Bresgen
The October Revolution of 1917, like a mighty stone thrown into a seemingly idyllic lake, spawned countless ripples around it. One of them: millions of migrants to Western Europe and the rest of the world. The short-term spa guests of yore, Russian aristocrats, civil servants, officers, writers now permanently flooded the European metropolises. They met each other and "the others" in German and French cafes and boarding houses or in Tunisian-French port cities. The project "Родина /Russian Roulette" by the Russian director and theatre pedagogue Anna Yunysheva and the German author and dramaturge Bert Bresgen illuminates the revolution and the clash of the Russian migrants with the "old world" in Berlin, Wiesbaden, Bizerte and Paris in a virtuoso, poetic-satirical interweaving of documentary interviews, theatre and videos, and the tragicomic mishmash that ensued.
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