Dear Comrades!

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Dear Comrades!

2021,

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Drama

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When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist. Dear Comrades received critical praise out of the Venice Film Festival, with Variety calling it "scintillating" and "meticulous and majestic, epic in scope and tattoo-needle intimate in effect," and The Playlist describing it as "a fascinating blend of dark satire and bleak archaeology."

Critics Consensus

Dear Comrades takes a sharp, commanding look at a dark chapter in Soviet history made even more effective by its director's cold fury.

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Justin Chang

Los Angeles Times

Feb 10, 2021

[T]hese crisp, high-contrast images speak to another impulse as well: to look into a past shrouded in the fog of delusion and doublespeak, and to see through it with a clarity that burns and even heals.

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Anna Smith

Deadline Hollywood Daily

Feb 9, 2021

It's Konchalovsky regular Vysotskaya who stays with you, as a complex heroine whose utopian Soviet dream is gradually unravelling. It's a remarkable performance at the center of a devastating film.

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Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

AV Club

Feb 6, 2021

C

The script is filled with flat, rhetorical speeches that are done no favors by Konchalovsky's static direction.

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Geoffrey Macnab

iNews.co.uk

Jan 16, 2025

4/5

The black and white photography adds to its documentary-like feel but it’s as much a family melodrama as it is a historical essay.

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Carmen Paddock

TAKE ONE Magazine

Nov 30, 2023

By the film’s conclusion, the repetition of pledges and party songs have taken on a cold, angry edge under the remaining characters’ manic coping. DEAR COMRADES! argues that all are culpable.

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Vadim Rizov

Filmmaker Magazine

Nov 29, 2022

The irony is beyond blunt, the film increasingly distended, its impressive reconstruction not leading anywhere particularly beyond “the early ’60s were not a great time in USSR history.”

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Synopsis

When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist. Dear Comrades received critical praise out of the Venice Film Festival, with Variety calling it "scintillating" and "meticulous and majestic, epic in scope and tattoo-needle intimate in effect," and The Playlist describing it as "a fascinating blend of dark satire and bleak archaeology."

Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy
Producer: Alisher Usmanov
Screenwriter: Elena Kiseleva, Andrey Konchalovskiy
Distributor: NEON
Production Co: Production Center of Andrei Konchalovsky, Ministerstvo kultury Rossiyskoy Federatsii
Genre: History, Drama
Original Language: Russian
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 29, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 5, 2021
Runtime: 2h 0m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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