Bringing together provocative films by directors such as Sergei Eisenstein, Mikhail Kalatozov, Larisa Shepitko and Andrei Smirnov, Jean-Luc Godard, Gauber Rocha, Andrzej Wajda, Bernardo Bertolucci and Ken Loach, the ‘A World to Win’ season offers a highly curated programme of iconic filmmaking which includes a rare screening of the once-banned Soviet film commissioned to commemorate the 50th anniversary of 1917, Larisa Shepitko and Andrei Smirnov’s Beginning of an Unknown Century on March 8, International Womens Day.
Screening at Regent Street Cinema and other venues from Friday 17 February 2017, the season culminates in a landmark screening of Sergei Eisenstein’s October with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre on the 26th October 2017.
A World to Win programme is curated by Professor Ian Christie, Dr Maria Korolkova, and Justine Waddell of Kino Klassika Foundation.
Trailer for ‘A World to Win: A Century of Revolution on Screen’
Read the catalogue of ‘A World to Win: A Century of Revolution on Screen’
For more information on Kino Klassika’s revolutionary series of screenings, take a look at our catalogue: A World to Win: A Century of Revolution on Screen, curated by Ian Christie, Maria Korolkova and Justine Waddell. The catalogue includes programme notes by Academy Award winning director Bernardo Bertolucci, Academy Award winning screenwriter Christopher Hampton, as well as contributions from BBC Radio 4 Film Programme’s Francine Stock and Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw.
