
The Impossible Film
In the late 1920s, the great Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein made notes for a dream project: Das Kapital, the film.
Julia Alekseyeva is an assistant professor of English and cinema and media studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960s.

In the late 1920s, the great Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein made notes for a dream project: Das Kapital, the film.

In the 1960s, leftist filmmakers from France to Japan revolutionized the documentary. Anti-fascism was not just the heritage of past generations but a message carried forward by the avant-garde on-screen.