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Living In Truth, Soviet-Style

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The film 'Dear Comrades!' depicts the disillusioning of a Communist true believer

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Feb 14, 2021
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Julia Vysotskaya and Andrei Guselv in Andrei Konchalovsky’s ‘Dear Comrades!"

Last night I watched on Amazon streaming the new Andrei Konchalovsky film Dear Comrades!, and was up till 3 a.m. thinking about it. It’s terrific, just terrific. It’s a searing portrait of one Soviet woman’s disillusion as she discovers the cost of living by lies.

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