The subject of “Dear Comrades!” stretches across the decades: On June 2, 1962, Soviet soldiers opened fire on workers in the city of Novocherkassk who were protesting for better living conditions and ...

Andrei Konchalovsky’s acclaimed historical drama Dear Comrades! is inspired by the true story of a state-sponsored massacre in the Russian city of Novocherkassk in the early 1960s. We follow the story ...

The real-life events on which Dear Comrades! is based took place in June 1962, when social unrest over rising prices saw strikes break out in Novocherkassk, an industrial town in Russia’s south, ...

Andrei Konchalovsky’s “Dear Comrades!,” Russia’s entry this year for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (streaming on Hulu), opens with the chords of the Russian national anthem.

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Konchalovsky can teach Scorsese a lesson about creating substance rather than empty ‘content.’ Last week Martin Scorsese tried wriggling his way out of artistic responsibility, but this week Russia’s ...

With a bureaucrat as the central character, the film at times takes on a bleakly comic tone as it fills in the circumstances surrounding a massacre. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an ...

Veteran director Andrei Konchalovsky's look at a Soviet official searching for her daughter after a violent massacre is brimming with anger and intrigue. The subject of “Dear Comrades!” stretches ...