Episodes

Utopia in Power (1917-1928)

This episode covers 1900 to 1928, a period which saw the death of Lenin, the creation of the KGB and the coming to power of Stalin.

52m

Episode 2

The Two Faces of Communism (1929-1939)

This episode includes Stalin’s purge, Communism the defender of democracy, the great famine of the Ukraine and the Spanish civil war.

52m

Episode 3

The Peak Years (1940-1953)

This episode includes the defeat of Germany, the take over of Eastern Europe, the Korean War and the Cold War.

52m

Episode 4

End Without End (1953-1999)

This episode includes Stalin’s death and Krushchev taking power, uprisings crushed in East Germany and Hungary, the propaganda of the space race, Castro taking over Cuba, Vietnam, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the unleashing of freedom, the remnants of a discredited philosophy.

52m

Cast

Patrice Chéreau

Narrator (voice)

Crew

Patrick Barbéris

Director

Michel Rotman

Producer

Patrick Rotman

Writer

Françoise Bernard

Editor

Lucio Fanti

Opening Title Sequence

Marc Perrone

Original Music Composer

Marie-Hélène Barbéris

Documentation & Support

Nicolas Boisson

Assistant Editor

Jacques Jeangérard