Highlights
Dear Comrades!
Dorogie Tovarisch!
Swiss Premiere
Andrei Konchalovsky / Russian Federation / 2020 / 120 min / Drama
Russian / Subtitles English
Russian / Subtitles English
USSR, 1962. A member of the Party, Ludmila reacts harshly when workers at the local power plant go on strike. Her daughter is in the crowd. Moscow says to send in the army. A moving fresco and a Special Jury Prize winner at the last Venice Mostra about a massacre that has long since remained secret.
Konchalovsky is an uncategorizable filmmaker. Pioneer of the New Wave, celebrated then banned by the Soviet authorities, he was 25 when the Novotcherkassk massacre took place on June 2, 1962. In a brutal repression ordered by First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, the army fired on strikers. Through the eyes of a woman, as in a Greek tragedy, the worst happens. These classified events were only revealed in 1990.
Direction
Andrei Konchalovsky
Screenplay
Andrei Konchalovsky, Elena Kiseleva
Image
Andrey Naidenov
Editing
Sergei Taraskin, Karolina Maciejewska
Sound
Polina Volynkina
Production
Andrei Konchalovsky Studios (Alisher Usmanov)
With
Julia Vysotskaya, Vladislav Komarov, Andrei Gusev, Yulia Burova, Sergei Erlish
International sales
Films Boutique (Isabel Ivars)