Comrade Chkalov Crosses the North Pole
- Media type
- Film
Переход товарища Чкалова через Северный полюс · Comrade Chkalov Crosses the North Pole · MOVIE
Comedy 1990
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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.