Release Date: 1974-01-06
Overview: Originally called World '68, later retitled The World of Today Romm’s film was conceived as an impassioned, large-scale essay on the origins of the 20th century and the subsequent reality the disappointed director felt slipping away from him. The film itself slipped away from him and was left unfinished at the time of his death. His younger colleagues, Marlen Khutsiev, Elem Klimov and German Lavrov, completed the film from the elements he left behind in addition to segments from Ordinary Fascism, closing the film with Romm’s ultimately optimistic outlook: "And still I believe that man is sensible..."
Rating: 4.6 / 10
Mikhail Romm
as himself
Albert Einstein
as (archive footage)
Raymond Poincaré
as Self (archive footage)
Woodrow Wilson
as (archive footage)
Zhou Enlai
as (archive footage)
German Lavrov - Director of Photography
Alfred Schnittke - Music
Solomon Zenin - Writer
Aleksandr Novogrudsky - Writer
Mikhail Romm - Writer
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