在这部事件纪录片片中,历史会重演吗？《占领广场》（39 届）的续篇或已发生，罗斯尼萨纪录乌克兰群众革命成功后，回望历史做敲钟人。串连八摄影师镜头，重现1991 年列宁格勒，共党死硬派欲推翻戈巴卓夫，群情汹涌上街，军人拒绝开枪，流产政变把苏联送进历史。一如《占领》身处示威现场，感受群众迷惘以至充权，罗斯尼萨信任观众，让我们找问题和答案。画面出现当时副市长普京，他友好的政变黑手至今都没事。二十多年后，澎湃热情被变种独裁者掏空，政治风景复旧。占领广场又是时候了？
In August 1991 a failed coup d'état attempt (known as Putsch) led by a group of hard-core communists in Moscow, ended the 70-year-long rule of the Soviets. The USSR collapsed soon after, and the tricolour of the sovereign Russian Federation flew over Kremlin. As president Gorbachev was detained by the coup leaders, state-run TV and radio channels, usurped by the putschists, broadcast Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" instead of news bulletins, and crowds of protestors gathered around Moscow's White House, preparing to defend the stronghold of democratic opposition led by Boris Yeltsin, in the city of Leningrad thousands of confused, scared, excited and desperate people poured into the streets to become a part of the event, which was supposed to change their destiny. A quarter of a century later, Sergei Loznitsa revisits the dramatic moments of August 1991 and casts an eye on the event which was hailed worldwide as the birth of "Russian democracy". What really happened in Russia in August 1991...
