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And Still I Believe

And Still I Believe

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 6, 1974

Runtime

2h 0m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

46%

Original Title

И всё-таки я верю...

Production Companies

Tvorcheskoe Obedinenie "Tovarishch", Mosfilm

Director

Mikhail Romm

Description

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..."