And Still I Believe (1974)

5.2/10 • 120 min • Documentary

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..."

Cast

Mikhail Romm

himself

Albert Einstein

(archive footage)

Raymond Poincaré

Self (archive footage)

Woodrow Wilson

(archive footage)

Zhou Enlai

(archive footage)

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