Yulia Burova

Dear Comrades! is a film about actual events that took place in the USSR in 1962, when the Soviet authorities reacted to a strike at the Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant by opening fire on the demonstrators. The subsequent cover-up of the massacre was so thorough that details about what had happened only started to emerge when the USSR started falling apart. Director Andrey Konchalovsky puts a personal dramatic rather than semi-documentary spin on events by opening his film up in a bedroom, where attractive middle-aged local party functionary Lyuda (Julia Vysotskaya) is pouring herself back into her clothes and discussing politics with her boss. Sharing intimacies before she heads out, it’s immediately obvious … Read more