He bears the marks of the century he lived in, just like doorframes were carved with the notches fathers made to measure their progeny: when he was 17, the October uprisings broke out. When he was 20, he enlisted in the Red Cavalry in the Civil War with Isaac Babel. He was 38 during the Moscow trials, and his best film, “Happiness”, was accused of “Bukharinism.” At 41, his country was at war, and he was on the frontline, camera in hand. And upon his death in 1989, he was praising the perestroika, convinced that the cause of communism, to which he had devoted his life, had finally found its culmination.” Chris Marker