Comrade Chkalov Crosses the North Pole
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Release date:
March 25, 1990
Duration: 24 minutes
Overview
A satiric comedy which dissects the iconography of the 'Soviet Hero'. Original footage of a propaganda film from 1941 is the starting point for this parody of the ideological cliches of Soviet cinema. It follows the story of a Russian crew across the North Pole.
