FOR MARX …

A steelworks in the Russian provinces. Workers labouring under already dire conditions face wage cuts and pay-offs. A group of workers employees decide to form a trade union. The factory owner feels more irritated than alarmed – his main preoccupation is an art collection with which he wants to impress western business partners. Eventually unable to ignore the strikes and demonstrations, he orders the eradication of the union leaders. One survivor of the cull has to decide – continue the revolution or accept the rules of capitalism and oligarchy? With reference to the theories of Brecht, Godard and Marx and of Greek tragedy as well, Baskova presents us with class struggle in times of financial crisis.