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And Still I Believe

First aired on Jan 6, 1974

Runtime: 120 mins

50%

Genres: Documentary

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..."

Featured Cast: click image to view more
Mikhail Romm | himself
Albert Einstein | (archive footage)
Raymond Poincaré | Self (archive footage)
Woodrow Wilson | (archive footage)
Zhou Enlai | (archive footage)
Featured Crew
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Alfred Schnittke | Music
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German Lavrov | Director of Photography
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Aleksandr Novogrudsky | Writer
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Mikhail Romm | Writer
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Solomon Zenin | Writer
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Fabian Mogilevskiy | Producer