The K Effect. Stalin's Editor

THE K EFFECT is a fiction movie made with fragments of reality, an historical documentary made by cogging fictional elements. It recounts Maxime’s life during the 20th century: a century shaken by fascinating utopias, which spawned cheerful dreams and horrible nightmares. THE K EFFECT reveals the amazing story of Maxime Stransky through his amateurs footages. Childhood friend of Sergei Eisenstein, Maxime is an actor in 1920 Moscow. He will reveal his certainties and doubts, his missions as actor-spy, as forger and Hollywood producer, the Great Crash of 1929, how he betrayed Eisenstein, his two families – Russian and American – the Spanish Civil War, WWII, his epic flight from the FBI, his abrupt deportation to the Gulag in Kolyma in 1952. THE K EFFECT recounts the odyssey of those who dared dreaming and were swollen by their dreams. An adventure into the dawning of cinema and utopias, an historical road movie.