Movielogr
Comrade Chkalov Crosses the North Pole (1990)
Directed by Maksim Pezhemskiy
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.
Length 24 minutes
Actors
Aleksandr Zavyalov | Semyon Furman | Viktor Bychkov | Vladimir Baranov