Comrade Chkalov Crosses the North Pole
6.6/ 10 5 votes 1990-03-25 0h 24m 1 popularity
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.
Director: Maxim Pezhemsky
Aleksandr Zavyalov
Чкалов
Semyon Furman
вождь
Viktor Bychkov
пилот
Vladimir Baranov
бортмеханик
