The celebrated Hungarian director Kornel Mundruco, who was last night (July 18) at at the opening of the Palić European Film Festival awarded the "Aleksandar Lifka" award for outstanding contribution to European cinematography, spoke today at a press conference about his new film "Kamo" (The Revolution According to Kamo), the filming of which has yet to begin.
It is an ambitious historical drama that deals with the young Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, but from an unusual perspective — through the relationship with his friend and comrade Simon Arshaki Ter-Petrosyan, better known by the revolutionary nickname Kamo.
The story of the rise of a dictator
The film will not be a classic biographical portrait of the future Soviet dictator, but a story about the emergence of a historical figure. The story is set in the period of the collapse of the Russian Empire, between 1891 and 1922, and follows two boys from the Georgian town of Gori whose friendship will forever be linked to great historical turmoil. While Soso - the name by which the young Stalin was known at the time - becomes a charismatic, calculating and ruthless revolutionary, Kamo remains his loyal ally, a man ready to make the greatest sacrifices for him.
Mundruzzo pointed out that he was attracted not only by the historical dimension of the story, but also by the question of the mechanisms of power — how one man rises to the top. "Kamo" will not be a story about a man who is simply born evil, but an exploration of the circumstances, choices and relationships that shape historical figures.
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