Film

And Still I Believe

1974 · 2h · Documentary

IMDb

6.9

Originally called World '68, later retitled The World of Today Romm’s film was conceived as an impassioned, large-scale essay on the origins of the 20th century and the subsequent reality the disappointed director felt slipping away from him. The film itself slipped away from him and was left unfinished at the time of his death. His younger colleagues, Marlen Khutsiev, Elem Klimov and German Lavrov, completed the film from the elements he left behind in addition to segments from Ordinary Fascism, closing the film with Romm’s ultimately optimistic outlook: "And still I believe that man is sensible..."

Mikhail Romm

himself

Albert Einstein

(archive footage)

Raymond Poincaré

Self (archive footage)

Woodrow Wilson

(archive footage)

Zhou Enlai

(archive footage)

• German LavrovDirector of Photography · Director
• Mikhail RommWriter · Director
• Marlen KhutsiyevDirector
• Elem KlimovDirector
• Solomon ZeninWriter
• Aleksandr NovogrudskyWriter
• Fabian MogilevskiyProducer

Release date

January 6, 1974

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

2h

Genres

Documentary