Dear Comrades!

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Dear Comrades!
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Film poster
Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky
Produced by Andrei Konchalovsky
Olesya Gidrat
Alisher Usmanov
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  • Andrei Konchalovsky
  • Elena Kiseleva
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Cinematography Andrey Naydenov
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  • Sergei Taraskin
  • Karolina Maciejewska
Production
company
Andrei Konchalovsky Studios
Release dates
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  • 7 September 2020 (2020-09-07) (Venice)
Running time
120 minutes
Country Russia
Language Russian

Dear Comrades! (Russian: Дорогие товарищи!) is a 2020 Russian historical drama film about the Novocherkassk massacre produced, co-written and directed by Andrei Konchalovsky.[1] It was entered in competition at the 77th Venice International Film Festival.[2][3] At Venice, the film won the Special Jury Prize.[4] It was selected as the Russian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards,[5] making the shortlist of fifteen films.[6]

Plot

The film tells about the shooting of a demonstration of workers in Novocherkassk in 1962. Lyudmila is a party worker of the local city committee, a staunch communist. During a workers' strike at the Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant, Lyudmila witnesses the shooting of a workers' demonstration by order of the Government Commission, which is trying to hide the fact of a mass strike in the USSR. During the execution, Lyudmila's daughter disappears in the square, which makes a change in Lyudmila's worldview. Despite the blockade of the city, mass arrests and attempts by the Soviet authorities to hide what happened, she is looking for her daughter everywhere.

Cast

  • Julia Vysotskaya as Lyudmila 'Lyuda' Syomina
  • Sergei Erlish as Lyuda's father
  • Yuliya Burova as Svetka, Lyuda's daughter
  • Vladislav Komarov as Loginov
  • Andrey Gusev as Viktor

Reception

Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 96% approval rating based on 47 reviews, with an average rating of 8.1/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Dear Comrades takes a sharp, commanding look at a dark chapter in Soviet history made even more effective by its director's cold fury."[7] According to Metacritic, which sampled 14 critics and calculated a weighted average score of 82 out of 100, the film received "universal acclaim".[8]

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References

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