A Bolshevik in Turin, a countess in the shadows — who really owns the revolution?
In an attempt to win better conditions for the workers in 1920s Turin, Gramsci leads a takeover of the factories by the workers. He is offered assistance by Kabak (who has just arrived from Moscow) but Gramsci soon realizes Kabak is not motivated by ideology, as he has other motives.
Acting
Donald Pleasence's slippery Kabak — charming, sinister, unreadable.
Production
Recreates 1920s Turin on a shoestring, all smoke and desperate faces.
Director
Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Michael Lindsay-Hogg directed this between rock docs for The Beatles and The Rolling Stones — his only political feature.
Made for ITV in 1974, when British television routinely commissioned original plays about foreign revolutionary history that cinemas wouldn't touch.
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