Hammer & Tickle (2006)
- Directed by
- Ben Lewis
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United Kingdom, France, United States, Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Rating
- 7.4 of 10 from 5 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary looks at political jokes told under the Soviet Union's communist rule. It shows how humor was used as a form of quiet rebellion that helped push for social and political change.
analyticalhumorousreflectiveeducationalpensivewrythought-provokinghistorical
What happens
Hammer & Tickle: The Communist Joke Book is a 2006 documentary film about the nature of Russian political jokes under the powerful and socially restrictive Communist regime of the Soviet Union and its satellite nations. The film's name exemplifies the kind of mockery or criticism of the regime that the Soviet government would have found to be disagreeable, by playing on the symbol of communism, the hammer and sickle. The film tells the story of the power that jokes had to enable social and political change and advance personal freedoms from within the USSR - the film's opening scene uses a quote from George Orwell's 1984: "Every joke is a tiny revolution." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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