Mir

Serbian director Gorana Jovanović finds them everywhere, images of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, or Lenin for short: surrounded by knowledge on a bookshelf, raised between the fir trees in a spruce grove or watching over the alpacas peacefully grazing around him. At the Arctic Circle, in a fascinatingly barren landscape, the filmmaker locates the world's northernmost Lenin monument in a former workers' settlement, now long abandoned. There the world seems to be at the feet of the forever stern-looking thinker. She imagines him in dialogue with himself and, as he gazes into the everlasting ice, allows him to reaffirm: "It wasn't my fault."