2 - Silenced - Composers in Revolutionary Russia

This documentary rediscovers Russian composers of the early 20th century long banished and forgotten. The fates of young rebels such as Arthur Lourié, Nikolai Roslavets, Alexander Mosolov, Sergei Prokofiev, Leon Theremin or Arseny Avraamov reveal much about the early Soviet Union’s cultural life, the hopeful and then tragic entanglement of art and politics to which so many artists fell victim during the First World War, the October Revolution, and the rule of Stalin.