Alexander Kolchak
Acting
Biography
Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak was a Russian statesman, political and military figure, oceanographer, polar explorer (1900-1903), naval commander (1915-1917). During the Russian Civil War, he became known as the leader of the White Movement. In the territories of the former Russian Empire controlled by the movement, he headed the military dictatorship regime in the positions of Supreme Ruler of Russia and Supreme Commander of the Russian Army until his death. Participant of the Russian-Japanese and the First World Wars. St. George's cavalier. The Admiral (1918). In January 1920, during the retreat of the white troops and the evacuation of the Entente forces from Siberia, he was extradited to Irkutsk by the command of the Czechoslovak Corps to local authorities in exchange for the free movement of Czechoslovak echelons and allied military missions to Vladivostok. On February 7, 1920, he was shot by decree of the Irkutsk Military Revolutionary Committee of February 6, 1920, headed by the Bolsheviks and acting on the personal instructions of Vladimir Lenin, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR.
Known For
A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to the great socialist October Revolution and the final triumph.
Anniversary of the Revolution
A film about peace, love and war. Dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the end of the Civil War in Russia. The film takes place at the end of the summer of 1917, when Russia and the whole world were at a crossroads between two eras. None of the people could even imagine how much his life would change in the very near future. In a strange way, the atmosphere of the film echoes our current reality and what is happening in Russia today. According to the form of visualization, the film belongs to experimental mockumentary cinema. To give greater authenticity to what is happening on the screen, the shooting was carried out on black-and-white negatives of 16 and 35 mm, hand-operated cameras were used and the material was developed in manual spiral tanks. The documentary chronicle of the Kolchak army of 1919 and the White army in the Far East of 1922 is embedded in the finale of the film.
Dreams of the Past
The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisings, the guerrilla war, the Kolchak front, the Wrangel front and the Kronstadt rebellion. Chaos and violence, devastation and death.
The History of the Civil War
A compilation of newsreels shot between 1913 and 1917 - the years leading up to the Russian Revolution.