Men In Prison

1914. A political activist has been sentenced to five years in prison. The repressive brutality behind bars mirrors a society at war, consuming itself in its own savagery. From its ashes rises a prophecy of revolutionary victory.

“I have undergone a little over 10 years of various forms of captivity, agitated in seven countries and written 20 books. I own nothing. On several occasions a press with a vast circulation has hurled filth at me because I spoke the truth. Behind us lies a victorious revolution gone astray, several abortive attempts at revolution, and massacres in so great a number as to inspire a certain dizziness. And to think that it is not over yet. Let me be done with this digression; those were the only roads possible for us. I have more confidence in mankind and in the future than ever before.” — Victor Serge,1943.