"Dear Comrades!" Is the Story of Two Russian Families and a Century of Terror
Save this story for later. Andrei Konchalovskyâs âDear Comrades!,â Russiaâs entry this year for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (streaming on Hulu), opens with the chords of the Russian national anthem. The director was five or six years old when his father, Sergei Mikhalkov, first co-wrote the lyrics for the anthem, which included praise for Lenin and Stalin. Decades later, Mikhalkov rewrote the lyrics to remove Stalin, and, in 2000, immediately after ...
Rostovskaya Oblast United States Sergei Mikhalkov Viktor Andrei Gusev Lyuda Syomina Julia Vysotskaya Alisher Usmanov
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