Dear Comrades!

Neon | Release Date (Streaming): December 25, 2020

7.1	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 15 Ratings

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netflicJan 28, 2021

This movie is an official entry into Oscar 2020 from Russia.
The director is quite famous: Andrei Konchalovsky.
The movie is based on historic events. In 1962 there was a strike at an industrial plant in the Russian city of Novocherkassk. TheThis movie is an official entry into Oscar 2020 from Russia.
The director is quite famous: Andrei Konchalovsky.
The movie is based on historic events. In 1962 there was a strike at an industrial plant in the Russian city of Novocherkassk.
The authorities ruthlessly squashed it and then tried very hard that no one, neither abroad nor inside the country knew anything about it.
People not intimately familiar with totalitarian regimes would have hard time to understand how it is possible. Well, it is, it was and it will be in a country like the USSR.
I lived in that country, and I got to know about these events well after the Soviet Union collapsed.
But back to the movie. The conflict is shown through the eyes of a woman, a typical "apparatchik", a functionary who has an unwavering belief in the righteousness of the Party and the cause of building communism.
Then she becomes a witness to mass casualties among peaceful demonstrators at the hands of KGB and the Army. When her daughter becomes missing for several days, that unshakable belief of hers seems to be shattered. Or does it?
The movie is done quite professionally, one could feel the hand of a master.
But it failed to impress me the way previous Russian Oscar entries did ("Beanpole" 2019, "Loveless", 2017, "Leviathan" 2014).
Maybe my expectations were too high. Or maybe it was a totally different level of movie making. Who can tell?
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bertobellamyJul 10, 2022

A woman's lament is also the nation's. 'Dear Comrades' starts as a political drama only to transform into a thriller about a mother desperately looking for her daughter. Andrei Konchalovsky conjures striking images and a nerve-racking storyA woman's lament is also the nation's. 'Dear Comrades' starts as a political drama only to transform into a thriller about a mother desperately looking for her daughter. Andrei Konchalovsky conjures striking images and a nerve-racking story to make the world remember the Novocherkassk massacre, in which more than 20 unarmed civilians protesting for labor rights were gunned down by the Soviet army and the KGB. This is a very sharp look into ideologies clashing within different generations, all part of a country that demands everything for them without giving anything in return.… Expand

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Leon970304May 30, 2021

B+/77｜对整个政治体制的直白批判毫无新意，视听语言毫无必要的繁琐让整部影片失去了本该有的力量。主角刻画的很立体，其身为不同社会角色所体验到的社会信息和所代表的态度丰满而鲜活。换个角度来说，整部影片的社会价值是值得赞许的，尤其是在当下映射着整个世界——不仅仅是中国社会的社会政治体制所暗含的矛盾和对立。当然，来到letterboxd已经从某些角度证明了中国在这方面的挤压已经到了接近饱和的程度。愿世界和平。B+/77｜对整个政治体制的直白批判毫无新意，视听语言毫无必要的繁琐让整部影片失去了本该有的力量。主角刻画的很立体，其身为不同社会角色所体验到的社会信息和所代表的态度丰满而鲜活。换个角度来说，整部影片的社会价值是值得赞许的，尤其是在当下映射着整个世界——不仅仅是中国社会的社会政治体制所暗含的矛盾和对立。当然，来到letterboxd已经从某些角度证明了中国在这方面的挤压已经到了接近饱和的程度。愿世界和平。

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