MPR’s John Rabe intreviews David Reville, the McKnight Visiting Composer with the American Composers Forum, about his film score for “The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty." The film is screening at the Red Eye Cinema in Minneapolis.

Seventy years ago pioneering Soviet filmmaker Esther Shub sat down with a treasure trove of archival footage. She had newsreel footage of World War One and breadlines in Russia. She also had reels of film taken by Czar Nicholas the Second's private cinematographer that documented the lavish life the royals led while the masses were starving. The product was a moving and fascinating silent propaganda compilation, called "The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty." If the film is missing anything, that thing is a decent musical score…until now.

Segment includes music clips.