Taurus

With Taurus, Alexander Sokurov has made his second film out of four (according to himself) on the subject of power. Molokh was the first. The story in Taurus starts in 1923, when Vladimir Ilyitch Uljanoff, also known as Lenin, is confined to an estate in the Russian countryside. He is ill and derived of all means of communication with the outside world. His successor Stalin pays a visit, and with beauty not being one of Lenin's main character nor that of Stalin's, their tête-à-tête on the manor terrace is revealing.

Sokurov's Taurus brings to life one of Lenin's last days, contrasting the small movements of everyday life to the movements of the Soviet Union at the time. Significant of all of Sokurov's films is a flow and rhythm which some maybe would describe as life itself.

Jan Hietala.

Premiärstatus
Nordisk premiär: Orig. titel
Tellets: Medverkande
Leonid Mozgovoi, Maria Kuznetsova: Producent
Victor Serg: Manus
Yuri Arabov: Foto
Alexander Sokurov: Musik
Andrei Sigle: Talat språk
Russian