‘Pieces Of A Woman’ Filmmaker Kornel Mundruczo To Direct Joseph Stalin Biopic ‘The Revolution According To Kamo’
deadline.comKornel Mundruczo (Pieces Of A Woman) has signed on to direct The Revolution According To Kamo, a biopic about the friendship between Simon Arshaki Ter-Petrosyan aka “Kamo” and his best childhood friend “Soso” who would go on to become Joseph Stalin.
Mundrcuczo’s frequent collaborator Kata Weber has adapted an original screenplay by Pawel Pawlikowski and Ben Hopkins. Spanning 30 years between 1891 and Kamo’s death in 1922, the Georgian-language film is described as “a portrait of the birth of the world’s most murderous dictator through the eyes of his best friend, ally, devoted disciple, and henchman.” The two grew up together in the small town of Gori close to Tbilisi.
Stalin was born into extreme poverty while Kamo’s family were wealthy merchants. Although Soso leaves Gori to attend a seminary, the two are reunited in their late teens in Tbilisi where the charismatic Soso has become an agitator and leader in the new revolutionary movement to bring down the monarchy.
The synopsis reads: As the red political agitators become increasingly powerful in Georgia, Kamo is dragged alongside Soso into a world of gangland violence, murder, and social upheaval.
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