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In August 1991 a failed coup d'état attempt (known as Putsch) led by a group of hard-core communists in Moscow, ended the 70-year-long rule of the Soviets. The USSR collapsed soon after, and the tricolour of the sovereign Russian Federation flew over Kremlin. As president Gorbachev was detained by the coup leaders, state-run TV and radio channels, usurped by the putschists, broadcast Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" instead of news bulletins, and crowds of protestors gathered around Moscow's White House, preparing to defend the stronghold of democratic opposition led by Boris Yeltsin, in the city of Leningrad thousands of confused, scared, excited and desperate people poured into the streets to become a part of the event, which was supposed to change their destiny. A quarter of a century later, Sergei Loznitsa revisits the dramatic moments of August 1991 and casts an eye on the event which was hailed worldwide as the birth of "Russian democracy".

Three days that shook the world or much ado about nothing?

Genres: Documentary

Starring: Chulpan Khamatova, Igor Gordin

Released: September 2, 2015

Runtime: 74.0

Popularity Rating: 0.376

Filmstudio Demarsh

Russia

Lyubov Ivanovna Troshcheykina Chulpan Khamatova
Aleksey Maksimovich Troshcheykin Igor Gordin
Revshin Sergey Perelygin
Antonina Pavlovna Opoyashina Yevgeniya Simonova
Vera Zoya Kaydanovskaya
Pyotr Nikolaevich Sergei Dreiden
Alfred Afanasevich Barboshin Yevgeni Tsyganov
Eleonora Karlovna Shnap Inga Strelkova-Oboldina
Marfa Olga Prokofeva

Art — Production Design: Olga Osipova
Camera — Director of Photography: Shandor Berkeshi
Directing — Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Production — Producer: Andrey Eshpay
Sound — Original Music Composer: Andrei Ledenyov
Writing — Novel: Vladimir Nabokov
Writing — Writer: Andrey Eshpay