Originally called World '68, later retitled The World of Today Romm’s film was conceived as an impassioned, large-scale essay on the origins of the 20th century and the subsequent reality the disappointed director felt slipping away from him. The film itself slipped away from him and was left unfinished at the time of his death. His younger colleagues, Marlen Khutsiev, Elem Klimov and German Lavrov, completed the film from the elements he left behind in addition to segments from Ordinary Fascism, closing the film with Romm’s ultimately optimistic outlook: "And still I believe that man is sensible..."
Aleksandr Novogrudsky
Writer
Mikhail Romm
Writer, Director
Solomon Zenin
Writer
Marlen Khutsiyev
Director
Elem Klimov
Director
German Lavrov
Director

Mikhail Romm
himself

Albert Einstein
(archive footage)

Raymond Poincaré
Self (archive footage)

Woodrow Wilson
(archive footage)

Zhou Enlai
(archive footage)
Naqoyqatsi61%
Directed by John Ford70%
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster69%
28 Up75%
Sherman's March67%
21 Up74%
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror69%
7 Plus Seven72%
35 Up76%
Киноглаз67%
Public Speaking70%
Human Flow69%
Night Will Fall76%
The Class of ‘9271%
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library64%
Birth of the Living Dead67%
McCullin76%
Marwencol72%
Return68%