Dear Comrades!

Russia | 2020 | Andrei Konchalovsky

Russia’s official submission for this year’s Oscar for Best Int’l Feature Film exposes a long-suppressed Khrushchev-era atrocity—a 1962 massacre of striking factory workers in a small Russian industrial town. Shot in b&w and in the old 4×3 aspect ratio, this powerful historical drama (which is not without dark humor) relays the events through the eyes of a mother who is a loyal Communist Party apparatchik. From the veteran director of Runaway Train and Siberiade. “Perversely beautiful and coldly furious…Meticulous and majestic, epic in scope and tattoo-needle intimate in effect…Excoriating proof that not all filmmakers are made sloppy or slipshod by anger.” –Variety. “Konchalovsky’s masterpiece.” –The New Yorker. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. 120 min.

Dear Comrades!, a Cinematheque streaming exclusive, can be viewed online from 1/29 thru at least 3/18 via the link below. Doing so supports the Cinematheque. Screening fee is $4.99, and you have 72 hours to watch it. NOTE: This movie is not part of the four-film package of 2021 Best Int’l Feature Film Oscar submissions being released during January by Film Movement.

https://watch.neonrated.com/film/cleveland-cinematheque-presents-dear-comrades/