Comrade Chkalov Crosses the North Pole
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Comrade Chkalov Crosses the North Pole

1990
Comedy | 25 March 1990
Aleksandr Zavyalov, Semyon Furman, Viktor Bychkov
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.
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