Singing for Lenin

A couple of years ago, I found a family archive of photographs and other documents from the 1970's that concerned the Finnish Communist movement "taistolaisuus". This is when the short film Singing for Lenin got started. As I browsed through the pictures, I realized how distant that era seemed even though there were many familiar faces in them. In this experimental film I will look at the movement with contemporary eyes. I wonder, if my generation who grew up in the 1980's could understand a time that ended before we were born and that still divides opinions so strongly. The screenplay of my film is partly based on interviews with participants of the 70's student movement. (oficjalny tekst dystrybutora)