The release date into a wide range of film "Dear Comrades!" Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky was scheduled for November 12, 2020, and the premiere took place on the 9th. The black and white film tag tells about the tragic events classified by the Soviet authorities related to the deaths of workers who took place in the Rostov region in the 1960s. In material 24cmi - a selection of interesting facts about the plot, actors, their roles, as well as the filming of the picture.
Plot
The action of the story of the film transfers viewers in 1962. On the screen the events that occur in the city of Novocherkassk Rostov region. Workers of the major city plant staged a strike on the main square and demand to increase salary and reduce food prices. Employees of other factories and enterprises join the protesters, and the authorities solve the problem with the help of cardinal measures: armed servicemen are introduced into the city, who are ready to disperse strikers with real shots.The ideological worker of the Party Committee and the convinced communism of Lyudmila receives groceries in the grocery and outraged by the behavior of the folk workers. However, its position is changing, and the usual picture of the world collapses when she learns that her teenage daughter disappeared into the crowd of strikers. Over the next 24 hours, Lyudmila in search of the child will have to see stripping, arrests and interrogations, as well as become evidence of executions and nameless burials.
Actors
Starring in the film "Dear Comrades!" Removed:
- Julia Vysotskaya - Lyudmila, a party worker, who has disappeared daughter during a strike;
- Vladislav Komarov - Timofey Loginov, First Secretary of the CPSU City Committee in Novocherkassk;
- Andrei Gusev - Victor;
- Julia Burov - Light, daughter Lyudmila, missing on the square in the crowd of protesters;
- Dmitry Kostyaev - Alexander Basov, First Secretary of the Rostov Regional Committee of the CPSU;
- Ivan Martynov - General KGB;
- Anatoly Petrunin - General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Also in the picture involved : Artem Krysin, Yuri Grishin, Ksenia Komarova, Svetlana Lysenkov, Elena Yashnova, Daria Girnik and other actors.
Interesting Facts
1. The historical drama received a special jury award at the Venice Film Festival of 2020, which was held from September 2 to September 12 on the Italian Lido Island. Director Andrei Konchalovsky expressed gratitude to his wife Yulia Vysotskaya, who played a major role in the film, and colleagues at the closing ceremony of the festival.2. The general producer of the film was the famous Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov.
3. The film "Dear Comrades!" There was a picture of the closure at the "Kinotavra", held in Sochi in September 2020.
4. At the 20120 International Film Festival in Chicago in October 2020, the tape received the Silver Hugo prize for the best director.
5. The shooting process was passed directly in the places of historical events in the Rostov region in the summer of 2019. Also, individual scenes were filmed in a kinopaville in Luzhniki.
6. In the film "Dear Comrades!" Many non-professional actors are involved, more than 500 people participated in Massovka.
7. It was planned that the premiere of the picture will be held in May 2020, but the pandemic made adjustments, and the date of release was transferred.
8. The film went on a hire with the support of the Russia-1 TV channel.
9. Events in Novocherkassk, which occurred in 1962, which formed the basis of the film's plot, were classified as Soviet power and became partially known in a wide range only during restructuring. Some case materials still hold secret. The workers' strike ended in the death of 24 people who were executed. About 70 people were injured. More than 100 people were sentenced to prison time from 2 to 15 years. In the 90s, the convicts were rehabilitated.
10. The consultant when writing a script for the film was (at that time) Assistant to the Chief Military Prosecutor of the Russian Federation Yuri Bagharaov, who in the 1990s engaged in clarifying the causes and circumstances of those tragic events.