Zina (film)

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Zina
Directed by	Ken McMullen
Produced by	Ken McMullen
Written by	Terry James Ken McMullen
Cinematography	Bryan Loftus
Editing by	Robert Hargreaves
Distributed by	Virgin Films
Release date(s)	July 1985 (1985-07)
Running time	90 minutes
Language	English
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Zina (1985) is an award-winning film by director Ken McMullen. It tells a story of a twentieth century Antigone, Zinaida Volkova (Domiziana Giordano ), daughter of Leon Trotsky. In 1930s Berlin, Zina is being treated by the adlerian psychotherapist Professor Arthur Kronfeld^[1] (Ian McKellen), recalling incidents both from her life and that of her father. During this psychoanalysis, which includes some hypnosis, she recalls incidents both from her own life and that of her father, as a leader of the Russian Revolution, as the holder of state power and later in exile. Against the background of the progressive deterioration of the situation in Europe, threatened by the rise of fascism and the spectre of the Second World War, Zina’s identification with Antigone becomes more and more credible. What were her hallucinations begin to take objective form on the streets. The dynamics of Greek tragedy, always waiting in the wings, step forward to take control. Zina has won many awards and is regarded by many as one of the great political motion pictures.