The Nine Lives of Nestor Makhno
12 part series; filming in 2005; to be released: late 2006. Directed by Mukola (Nikolai) Kaptan. Ukraine & Russia.

Premiers at 9:00 pm on August 30, 2006 on RTVi (Russian cable/satellite channel) in the US:
http://www.rtvi.ru/broadcast/i/a/20060830#


DVD cover

book 1

book 2
English translation of the Russian movie trailer

(Click here for English translation of Trailer voice over)
Trailer: http://makhno.ru/video/MAHNO.wmv (Windows Media video; 9MB)

English translation of Russian press coverage

1. Director Nikolai Kaptan: We'll have to flush a mountain of stereotypes about Makhno down the drain. Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 3 August, 2005, English translation. W/ Photos.

2. Nine Lives of Nestor Makhno, film synopsis, MosTVF.ru, 03.29.2006
English translation. 8 Photos.

3. A hodgepodge of geese, people..., Express Gazeta (Express Paper [yep, a tabloid]), 16 August, 2005
Rough English translation. W/ Photos.

4. How to become chief anarchist, Gazeta Po Kievski (Kiev Paper/Daily Kiev), 22 September, 2005
Rough English translation

Russian-language Books About/by Nestor Makhno


"Makhno. Podlinnaya Istoriya" (Makhno. An Authentic History.) by S. N. Semanov (AST-PRESS | 2001)

"Nestor Makhno: Vozhak Anarkhistov. Novoye prochteniye po novym materyalam." (Nestor Makhno: Anarchist Chieftan. A New Reading Based on New Material.) S.N. Semanov (Veche | 2005 | Moscow)

"History of the Makhnovist Movement" by Peter Arshinov, "G. A. Kuz'menko's Diary" and Makhno's Memoir

"Makhnovshina" by S. Shumov and A. Andreyev

Collection of Makhno's writings

Makhno's memoirs

"Nestor Makhno" a historical novel by V. Akhin'ko

"Nestor Makhno" (Series: Chelovek Legenda.) Biography by Vadim Teletsyn (Russich | Olymp | 1998; ISBN 5-7390-0575-2, 5-88590-840-0)

"The Odessey of Bat'ka Makhno" by Sergei Mosiyash (Veche | 2002; ISBN 5-7838-1109-2)