The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun

Synopsis

The second installment of Anton Vidokle’s trilogy on Russian cosmism, The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun, looks at the poetic dimension of the solar cosmology of Soviet biophysicist Alexander Chizhevsky. Shot in Kazakhstan, where Chizhevsky was imprisoned and later exiled, the film introduces Сhizhevsky’s research into the impact of solar emissions on human sociology, psychology, politics, and economics in the form of wars, revolutions, epidemics, and other upheavals. It aligns the life of post-Soviet rural residents and the futurological projects of Russian cosmism to emphasize that the goal of the early Soviet breakthroughs aimed at the conquest of outer space was not so much technical acceleration, but the common cause of humankind in their struggle against the limitations of earthly life.

Main Cast

Kristina Isaykina

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Konstantin Bokarev

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Max Lukashov

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Vadim Zaharow

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Anton Vidokle Sergei Gooleikov
	Location Assistant	Iman Musa Kulmohhametov
Directing	Director	Anton Vidokle
Writing	Writer	Anton Vidokle
	Story	Nikolai Fedorov
Camera	Director of Photography	Ayman Nahle
Sound	Music	John Cale
	ADR Recordist	Ilja Köster
	Sound Mixer	Jochen Jezussek
	Music Editor	Carsten Nicolai
	Sound Recordist	Yuri Khramovskiy
Visual Effects	Animation	Alan Woo
Crew	Thanks	Hito Steyerl Rivers Plasketes Anastasia Gacheva Lily Lewis Maria Lind Anselm Franke Boris Groys Aleksandr Sheyn Jr. Arseny Zhiliaev
	Driver	Dmitry Pershin
	Drone Operator	Vitaliy Dvoretskiy
Editing	Color Grading	Patrik Metzger
	Editor	Adam Khalil Meggie Schneider
Lighting	Lighting Director	Valeriy Lashkevich
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