Dear Comrades!
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Directed by | Andrei Konchalovsky |
Produced by | Andrei Konchalovsky Olesya Gidrat Alisher Usmanov |
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Cinematography | Andrey Naydenov |
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Andrei Konchalovsky Studios
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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]
See also
- List of submissions to the 93rd Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film
- List of Russian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
References
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External links
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- Russian-language films
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- Russian films
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- Russian historical drama films
- Drama films based on actual events
- Films about Soviet repression
- Films directed by Andrei Konchalovsky
- Films set in 1962
- Films set in Russia
- Films set in the Soviet Union
- 2020s historical drama films