A new documentary film: Revolution - New Art For A New World featuring voices of Matthew Macfadyen and Tom Hollander

A new documentary film titled Revolution - New Art For A New World feature voices by actors including a few Pride & Prejudice actors such Matthew Macfadyen (P&P 2005), Tom Hollander (P&P 2005), and Eleanor Tomlinson (Georgiana Darcy of Death Comes To Pemberley). This will be the 6th time Matthew Macfadyen (Mr. Darcy) and Tom Hollander (Mr. Collins) co-starred or appeared in the same project together. They previously co-starred and appeared in 5 TV (Any Human Heart and Ambassadors) & Films (Maybe Baby, Enigma, and most notably in Pride & Prejudice 2005 film). The Revolution documentary will be released in the US on February 2017. See more release dates here.

Thanks to my friend Maia for this scoop. Check out new photos of Matthew and Tom with headphones on as they do voices for the documentary and the official synopsis below...

Matthew Macfadyen as Vladimir Lenin

(source: Revolution website)

Tom Hollander as Kazimir Malevich

(source: Revolution website)

SYNOPSIS

Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Margy Kinmonth, Revolution: New Art for a New World is a bold and exciting feature documentary that encapsulates a momentous period in the history of Russia and the Russian Avant-Garde. 

Drawing on the collections of major Russian institutions, contributions from contemporary artists, curators and performers and personal testimony from the descendants of those involved, the film brings the artists of the Russian Avant-Garde to life. It tells the stories of artists like Chagall, Kandinsky and Malevich - pioneers who flourished in response to the challenge of building a new art for a new world, only to be broken by implacable authority after 15 short years and silenced by Stalin’s Socialist Realism.

Yet these remarkable artworks survived and the Russian Avant-Garde continues to exert an influence over contemporary art movements. Revolution: New Art for a New World confirms this; exploring the fascination that these colourful paintings, inventive sculptures and propaganda posters retain over the modern consciousness 100 years on.