How We Played the Revolution

A tale of how music and politics became entangled under Communism.

As with Elektro Moskva, here’s a tale of how music and politics became entangled under Communism – though with a more liberating conclusion in this case. The filmmakers argue persuasively for the role in Lithuania’s ‘Singing Revolution’ played by Antis, a theatrical post-modernist band formed as a joke on New Year’s Eve who became a figurehead for a growing independence movement during Perestroika. Veterans of the period relive the Rock Marches with a twinkle in their eye, and some of the film’s most moving archive sequences show protestors encouraging elderly villagers to rediscover their long-suppressed national anthem.

*Recommended