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Communism was a ruthless and bloody totalitarian system which failed everywhere. And yet, communism was the faith of the century. From the October Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall, communism inspired brotherhood and humane commitment in hundreds of millions of men, on every continent and for seven decades. Communism was a strange mixture of humanism and terror, brotherhood and cynicism, abnegation and abjection. In it, good and evil merged, clashed and were superposed. How did the luminous face come to blot out the murkiness for so long? Why, despite all the crimes denounced from the start, did the faith last so long? By choosing to reconstitute each era and the factors that inspired people to join this earthly religion, Faith of the Century explores, in four episodes, the mystery of a totalitarian machine that beguiled a good part of humankind.

France - 1999 - 4 X 52 mn - Betacam SP - Colour

Réalisation Patrick Rotman, Patrick Barbéris Scénario Patrick Rotman, Patrick Barbéris Montage Françoise Bernard, Florence Hermitte Musique Marc Perrone Commentaire dit par Patrice Chéreau

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