Zina (film)
Zina is a 1985 award-winning film directed by Ken McMullen. It tells a story of a twentieth century Antigone, Zinaida Volkova (Domiziana Giordano), daughter of Leon Trotsky. In 1930s Berlin, Zina is being treated by the Adlerian psychotherapist Professor Arthur Kronfeld[1] (Ian McKellen). During this psychoanalysis, which includes some hypnosis, she recalls incidents both from her own life and that of her father, as a leader of the Russian Revolution, as the holder of state power and later in exile. Against the background of the progressive deterioration of the situation in Europe, threatened by the rise of fascism and the spectre of the Second World War, Zina's identification with Antigone becomes more and more credible. What were her hallucinations begin to take objective form on the streets. The dynamics of Greek tragedy, always waiting in the wings, step forward to take control. Zina has won awards.
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| Directed by | Ken McMullen |
| Produced by | Ken McMullen |
| Written by | Terry James Ken McMullen |
| Starring | Domiziana Giordano Ian McKellen |
| Music by | David Cunningham (industrial music) Barrie Guard (symphonic music) Simon Heyworth (additional music) |
| Cinematography | Bryan Loftus |
| Edited by | Robert Hargreaves |
| Distributed by | Virgin Films |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Cast
- Domiziana Giordano as Zina Bronstein
- Ian McKellen as Professor Kronfeld
- Philip Madoc as Trotsky
- Rom Anderson as Maria
- Micha Bergese as Molanov
- Dominique Pinon as Pierre
- Gabrielle Dellal as Stenographer
- William Hootkins as Walter Adams
- Leonie Mellinger as German Stenographer
Notes
External links
- Zina at IMDb
- Zina at AllMovie
- Words by Ian McKellen
- Genealogy of Trotsky's Family at TrotskyanaNet, and here esp. Note 7 ()
- yahoo movies, Trailer of the Movie on YouTube and a scene of that film Trotsky dictating