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The Event

6.620151h 14mMovieDocumentary

In August 1991 a failed coup d'état attempt (known as Putsch) led by a group of hard-core communists in Moscow, ended the 70-year-long rule of the Soviets. The USSR collapsed soon after, and the tricolour of the sovereign Russian…

DirectorSergei Loznitsa

WriterSergei Loznitsa

ProducersMaria Choustova·Sergei Loznitsa

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DocAlliance Films

DocAlliance Films

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