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 ...

One breezy afternoon last week, a green-and-cream diesel train rolled into Mos cow’s cavernous Kiev station with a man described in the official press, only a few years back, as “traitor, Judas, ...

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, ...

A killer game of hide and seek.

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.

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 ...