The K Effect. Stalin's Editor

This is a curious and amazing story of Maxime Stransky, childhood friend of Sergei Eisenstein, actor in 1920 Moscow and an adventurer of the revolution, a counterfeiter and Hollywood producer - Stalin's film editor. His story is narrated through his amateurs footages and personal home movies. L. V. Kuleshov cinematic experiment in editing which turns filmmaking and cinema into a space where the world can be represented, ends up being a social experiment in the lives of the characters. (Moscow International Film Festival)