Dear Comrades (2020)

Original title

Дорогие товарищи!

Directed by

Andrei Konchalovsky

Genre

drama film, historical film

Country

Russia

Runtime

2h

Rated

12

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 159 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

During the early 1960s in the Soviet Union, a factory strike in Novocherkassk turns violent when the government sends in troops. A local Communist Party secretary finds herself caught between her loyalty to the regime and the horrifying events unfolding around her.

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What happens

Dear Comrades! (Russian: Дорогие товарищи!, romanized: Dorogie tovarishchi!) is a 2020 Russian historical drama film about the Novocherkassk massacre produced, co-written and directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. It was entered in competition at the 77th Venice International Film Festival. At Venice, the film won the Special Jury Prize. The film received a nomination for BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language and was selected as the Russian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, making the shortlist of fifteen films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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