Dreams of the Past

Dreams of the Past

2022 · 20 min · ★ 10.0 · Drama, History, War, Music

A film about peace, love and war. Dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the end of the Civil War in Russia. The film takes place at the end of the summer of 1917, when Russia and the whole world were at a crossroads between two eras. None of the people could even imagine how much his life would change in the very near future. In a strange way, the atmosphere of the film echoes our current reality and what is happening in Russia today. According to the form of visualization, the film belongs to experimental mockumentary cinema. To give greater authenticity to what is happening on the screen, the shooting was carried out on black-and-white negatives of 16 and 35 mm, hand-operated cameras were used and the material was developed in manual spiral tanks. The documentary chronicle of the Kolchak army of 1919 and the White army in the Far East of 1922 is embedded in the finale of the film.

Directed by Dmitri Frolov · Written by Dmitri Frolov

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Dmitri Frolov Officer
Lyudmila Konyaeva Дама
Sergey Oskolkov Musician
Olga Kirillova Marina Tsvetayeva
Dmitri Ivashentsov Painter
Dmitriy Shibanov Sailor
Natalya Surkova A figure emerging from the water
Oriza Triznyak Cemetery Caretaker
Alexander Kolchak (archive footage)

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