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Un autre sens du mot “tombeau“ est “composition poétique, œuvre en l’honneur de quelqu’un“. Chris Marker adresse six lettres à son ami, le cinéaste russe Alexandre Medvedkine, mort en 1989. D’archives en entretiens, de fiction en documentaire, de la Russie à l’URSS, de l’URSS à aujourd’hui, le film est un hommage à la mémoire du “dernier des bolchéviques“. Un remarquable portrait qui retrace conjointement l’Histoire de l’URSS et celle d’un artiste partagé entre idéologie et indépendance. “Peut-on rêver de meilleur fil conducteur que cette vie pour explorer la tragédie de notre siècle ?“ Alexander Ivanovitch Medvedkine was the only Russian filmmaker born in 1900 and his career is a key to the tragedy of the Soviet experience. Using fiction and documentary, videoart and archives, Marker has composed a poetic and musical threnedy in honour of the last of the bolcheviks, throughout his life a sincere believer in communism and whose films were repeatedly banned in the Soviet Union. Modern Russian film students express their excitement at seeing his film Happiness for the first time, and his contemporaries shed light on his life and work.
