Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life

The documentary takes up the writer Ayn Rand. Rand was born in 1905 in Saint Petersburg, in Russia. She escaped to America in 1926. Soviet communism was on the rise at the time. She spent the rest of her life in the United States. There she became known as a writer. The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged are her books. Freedom and individualism were her real subjects. The film tells those subjects and her life together. The account runs from her birth to the end of her life. Her early years in Russia and her years in America stand side by side. The books she wrote are inside the account too. Michael Paxton’s American documentary of 1998 runs a hundred and forty five minutes.