- An immersive quest for a lost Utopia: relics of scientific triumph, ruins of progress and fading Soviet grandeur await rediscovery - while former creators and advocates offer a gaze into the twilight zone between reality and imagination.
- BRIDGE TO SOVIETOPIA is an immersive expedition through remnants of scientific triumph, crumbling temples of progress and fading Soviet grandeur - filmed all over Ukraine in 360°. Creators, citizens and advocates of this now lost utopia recall their former goals and ideals - a window into a world of imagination and experimentation within the fields of science, industry and culture.
On the Institute of Ionosphere's premises, GEORGY, a professor of electromagnetism, demonstrates the USSR's largest antenna, as well as his scientific playground for lightning research - rusting and overgrown, yet highly guarded and still collecting secretive data. In Krivoy Rog, a metallurgical factory town and once a paragon for productivity, we encounter the steel worker SERGEY, witness the scale of heavy industry machinery and peek into the colossal mine that keeps gnawing away at our planet. Inside the Palace of Culture "Ilyich", a jewel of Constructivist architecture, the theatre director STANISLAV invites on a tour through the empty halls, where ideology and a sense of community were once propagated.
The film's fictional soundscapes and dynamic tracking shots let the spectator sail through history and memory. This vivid experience of dreams, achievements and failure provokes empathy as well as bewilderment. Thus, it may serve as a reflection on human endeavor - and its virtuous as well as destructive power.
"Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past - for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results." (MACHIAVELLI)
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