1990
6.2 (4 votes)
0h 24m
Genres
Comedy
Production Companies
Lenfilm
Comrade Chkalov Crosses the North Pole (Переход товарища Чкалова через Северный полюс)
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Director of Photography: Valery Mironov
Director: Maxim Pezhemsky
Writer: Maxim Pezhemsky
Top Cast
Aleksandr Zavyalov
Чкалов
Semyon Furman
вождь
Viktor Bychkov
пилот
Vladimir Baranov
бортмеханик
