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Comrade Chkalov Crosses the North Pole (1990)
Directed by Maxim Pezhemsky
Comedy · 24m
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.
Cast
Aleksandr Zavyalov
Semyon Furman
Viktor Bychkov
Vladimir Baranov
Crew
- Director
- Maxim Pezhemsky
- Writer
- Maxim Pezhemsky
- Director of Photography
- Valery Mironov
- Editor
- Tamara Denisova
Details
- Original title
- Переход товарища Чкалова через Северный полюс
- Release date
- 1990-03-25
- Runtime
- 24m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- Lenfilm