The Morozov Brothers: The Story of a Russian Collection (DVD)

A Film by Élisabeth Kapnist & Christian Dumais-Lvowski

Moscow, 1917. The wind of the Bolshevik Revolution blows away the old Russian society and brings along a new order. Lenin decides to nationalise the great private art collections, one of which belongs to the formidable collectors, brothers Mikhail and lvan Morozov. For more thon two decades, these two Muscovite patrons, textile billionaires, acquired an astonishing collection of paintings, masterpieces by Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Gauguin, Serou and Vroubel. This film tells the story of these two flamboyant characters, both major figures in the modern art scene, and follows the destiny of their fabulous collections...

• An artistic adventure mixing romanticism and passion
• Close-up views of a little-known collection, filled with impressionism masterpieces
• The story of the Russian Silver Age, a time of artistic renewal unparalleled in history
• An original movie, broadcasted on ARTE

Participants:
• Anne Baldassari, art historian and curator of the Louis Vuitton Foundation exhibition
• Alexis Petukhov, curator of the modern art department of the Pushkin Museum
• Tatiana Yudenkova, head of the late 19th–early 20th century Russian paintings department at the Tretiakov Gallery
• Svetlana Maslakova, consultant for the painting department of the Russian Academy

Duration: 52 min
Audio: FR / ENG
Video format / Aspect ratio: NTSC, Colour, 16:9
Sound format: Dolby Digital 2.0
Region code: 0