Dear Comrades!
(2020)
★ 7.1 IMDb · 161 votes
Year: 2020
Runtime: 120 мин
Country: Russia
Director: Андрей Кончаловский
Cast: Юлия Высоцкая, Sergei Erlish, Юлия Бурова, Андрей Гусев, Владислав Комаров, Дмитрий Костяев, Вячеслав Пигарев, Владимир Бабаев, Леонид Гусаров, Сергей Корягин
Plot
When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre that ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist.
Novocherkassk, USSR, 1962. Lyudmila is a Party executive and devout communist who had fought in WWII for Stalin's ideology. Certain that her work will create a communist society, the woman detests any anti-Soviet sentiment. During a strike at the local electromotive factory, Lyudmila witnesses a laborers' piquet gunned down under orders from the government that seeks to cover up mass labor strikes in USSR. After the bloodbath, when survivors flee from the square, Lyudmila realizes her daughter has disappeared. A gaping rift opens in her worldview. Despite the blockade of the city, mass arrests, and the authorities' attempts to cover up the massacre, Lyudmila searches for her daughter. We don't know how the search will end, but realize that the woman's life won't ever be the same.