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'Dear Comrades!' ('Dorogie Tovarischi!'): Film Review | Venice 2020

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Taking Soviet films from the past as its model, Russian veteran Andrei Konchalovsky’s Dear Comrades! (Dorogie Tovarischi!) pinpoints a moment inhistory when people’s unquestioning belief in the high-minded principles of the Communist party wavered as evidence to the contrary mounted and personally impacted their lives.

Although at first sight this dramatization of a 1962 strike at a factory in the U.S.S.R. may seem a long way from the interests of contemporary audiences, it is surprising how much resonance the film has with the political struggles of our own time.

Though it lacks the invention and poignancy to become another Cold War, it certainly stirs up enough emotion to ripple the festival scene.

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