Bolsheviks to Belfast
2009, 18 minutes
Docudrama based on a manuscript by a rich and romantic young girl who, in 1917, only just escaped the Bolshevik Revolution with her life.
Since finding his Grandmother Maroussia Zorokovich’s vivid account of life in and escape from Russia during the 1917 Revolution, director Dan Edelstyn has been obsessed by her riches to rags story of romance and exile. 2007 saw Optimistic Productions working on green screen sequences bringing the account to life in dramatic form within the development of the drama documentary entitled 'From Bolshevism to Belfast'.