{"id":31939,"title":"Lenin was a Mushroom","dimensions":"00:32:00","date_begin":"1997-01-01","material":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":21,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":4,"stream_count":0,"collection":"","cached_tag_list":"90s","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":20,"permalink":"lenin-was-a-mushroom","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/084/223/medium_500/leninwasamushroom_2.jfif?1654111277","cached_actor_names":"Sergey Kuryokhin \u0026 Sergey Sholokhov","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Video","nl":"Video","fr":"Video"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/084/223/large/leninwasamushroom_2.jfif?1654111277","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLenin Was a Mushroom\u003c/em\u003e was a mockumentary broadcast on Leningrad Television on 17 January 1991 as part of the programme Pyatoe Koleso (The Fifth Wheel). Taking place in the last days of the Soviet era, the film took the form of an interview between artist and musician Sergey Kuryokhin and reporter Sergey Sholokhov. Kuryokhin impersonates a historian, claiming that Vladimir Lenin ate such large quantities of mushrooms to the point that he became one. Constructing a logic around\u003cbr /\u003e\r\npseudoscience, circumstantial evidence and quotations, he argues that the Russian revolution of October 1917 was made by people who for years had been taking hallucinogenic mushrooms, which altered people\u0026rsquo;s personalities, and themselves became mushrooms. Thus \u0026ldquo;Lenin was a mushroom\u0026rdquo;. In the era of Gorbachov\u0026rsquo;s\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nglasnost the ebbing of censorship was just beginning, and a certain kind of humour emerged named Stiob, a cutting form of satire that playfully used historical cultural material and established formats to create an ironical parallel reality. It seems a large number of its viewers took the broadcast as serious, despite its absurdity, culminating most notably in a complaint from irked party members of the regional committee of the Communist Party, with one of their top regional functionaries stating \u0026ldquo;Lenin could not have been a mushroom\u0026rdquo; as a \u0026ldquo;mammal cannot be a plant\u0026rdquo;.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLenin Was a Mushroom\u003c/em\u003e was een mockumentary die werd uitgezonden op Leningrad Television op 17 januari 1991 als onderdeel van het programma Pyatoe Koleso [Het vijfde wiel]. Alles speelde zich af in de laatste dagen van het Sovjettijdperk. De uitzending nam de vorm aan van een interview tussen kunstenaar en muzikant Sergey Kuryokhin en verslaggever Sergey Sholokhov. Kuryokhin speelt een historicus die beweert dat Vladimir Lenin zulke grote hoeveelheden paddenstoelen at dat hij er zelf \u0026eacute;\u0026eacute;n werd. Kuryokhin construeert een logische redenering opgebouwd uit pseudowetenschap, indirect bewijs en citaten, en stelt dat de Russische revolutie van oktober 1917 werd veroorzaakt door mensen die jarenlang hallucinogene paddenstoelen hadden gegeten. Dit had hun persoonlijkheid veranderd, waardoor ze\u003cbr /\u003e\r\ntenslotte zelf paddenstoelen werden. Vandaar dus de titel: \u0026lsquo;Lenin was een paddenstoel\u0026rsquo;. Tijdens Gorbatsjovs glasnost begon de censuur nog maar net weg te ebben. Er ontstond een typisch Russische humor die stiob werd genoemd \u0026ndash; een snedige vorm van satire die op speelse wijze gevestigd historisch cultureel materiaal en gevestigde formaten gebruikte om een ironische parallelle realiteit te cre\u0026euml;ren. Blijkbaar namen veel kijkers de uitzending serieus, ondanks de absurditeit. Klap op de vuurpijl was een klacht van ge\u0026iuml;rriteerde partijleden van het regionaal comit\u0026eacute; van de Communistische Partij. Een van hun topfunctionarissen verklaarde: \u0026lsquo;Lenin kan geen paddenstoel geweest zijn\u0026rsquo; want \u0026lsquo;een zoogdier kan geen plant zijn\u0026rsquo;.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLenin Was a Mushroom \u003c/em\u003eest un faux documentaire (mockumentary) diffus\u0026eacute; le 17 janvier 1991 \u0026agrave; la t\u0026eacute;l\u0026eacute;vision de Leningrad dans le cadre de l\u0026rsquo;\u0026eacute;mission Pyatoe Koleso (La cinqui\u0026egrave;me roue). Le film, qui se d\u0026eacute;roule durant les derniers jours de l\u0026rsquo;\u0026egrave;re sovi\u0026eacute;tique, prend la forme d\u0026rsquo;une interview entre l\u0026rsquo;artiste et musicien Sergey Kuryokhin et le journaliste Sergey Sholokhov. Kuryokhin incarne un historien, affirmant que Vladimir L\u0026eacute;nine a mang\u0026eacute; de telles quantit\u0026eacute;s de champignons qu\u0026rsquo;il a fini par en devenir un lui-m\u0026ecirc;me. En \u0026eacute;laborant sa th\u0026egrave;se \u0026agrave; partir d\u0026rsquo;arguments pseudo-scientifiques, de preuves circonstancielles et de citations, il soutient que la R\u0026eacute;volution russe d\u0026rsquo;octobre 1917 a \u0026eacute;t\u0026eacute; accomplie par des personnes qui, durant des ann\u0026eacute;es, ont consomm\u0026eacute; des champignons hallucinog\u0026egrave;nes, lesquels ont modifi\u0026eacute; la personnalit\u0026eacute; des r\u0026eacute;volutionnaires, avant qu\u0026rsquo;ils et elles ne deviennent aussi des champignons. On en conclut donc : \u0026laquo; Lenin was a mushroom \u0026raquo;. \u0026Agrave; l\u0026rsquo;\u0026eacute;poque de la glasnost de Gorbatchev, le rel\u0026acirc;chement de la censure commen\u0026ccedil;ait \u0026agrave; peine, et une certaine forme d\u0026rsquo;humour, connue sous le nom de Stiob, a pu \u0026eacute;merger. Il s\u0026rsquo;agissait d\u0026rsquo;une forme de satire caustique qui reprenait de mani\u0026egrave;re ludique le mat\u0026eacute;riel culturel historique et les formats \u0026eacute;tablis afin de cr\u0026eacute;er une r\u0026eacute;alit\u0026eacute; parall\u0026egrave;le et pleine d\u0026rsquo;ironie. Il semble qu\u0026rsquo;en d\u0026eacute;pit de son absurdit\u0026eacute; un grand nombre de t\u0026eacute;l\u0026eacute;spectateur\u0026middot;trice\u0026middot;s aient pris l\u0026rsquo;\u0026eacute;mission au s\u0026eacute;rieux, aboutissant notamment \u0026agrave; une plainte de membres irrit\u0026eacute;\u0026middot;e\u0026middot;s du comit\u0026eacute; r\u0026eacute;gional du parti communiste, l\u0026rsquo;un de ses hauts fonctionnaires r\u0026eacute;gionaux allant jusqu\u0026rsquo;\u0026agrave; d\u0026eacute;clarer que \u0026laquo; L\u0026eacute;nine ne pouvait pas avoir \u0026eacute;t\u0026eacute; un champignon \u0026raquo;, arguant qu\u0026rsquo;un \u0026laquo; mammif\u0026egrave;re ne saurait \u0026ecirc;tre une plante \u0026raquo;.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[]}