Le Brahmante de Komintern
Director Vladimir Leon
Countries France
Duration 128 min
Synopsis
From Mexico to Russia, from Germany to India, Vladimir Léon seeks out a revolutionary adeventurer from Bengal – M.N. Roy. Founder of a Communist Party in Zapata’s Mexico, leader of the Communist International in Soviet Russia alongside Lenin, an anti-Stalin militant and an anti-Nazi militant in pre-war Germany, a politician and atheist philosopher in independent India. Roy personifies the struggles of a century on three different continents. However, official history of these three countries preferred to erase his mark. Through direct and indirect accounts, Léon patiently reconstructs the chaotic existence of a free spirit. This film, which is an enquiry as much as a meditation on the obscure course of History, is a modern epic, which sheds light on current affairs in different countries.
From Mexico to Russia, from Germany to India, Vladimir Léon seeks out a revolutionary adeventurer from Bengal – M.N. Roy. Founder of a Communist Party in Zapata’s Mexico, leader of the Communist International in Soviet Russia alongside Lenin, an anti-Stalin militant and an anti-Nazi militant in pre-war Germany, a politician and atheist philosopher in independent India. Roy personifies the struggles of a century on three different continents. However, official history of these three countries preferred to erase his mark. Through direct and indirect accounts, Léon patiently reconstructs the chaotic existence of a free spirit. This film, which is an enquiry as much as a meditation on the obscure course of History, is a modern epic, which sheds light on current affairs in different countries.