Deborah Ross

Riveting: Dear Comrades! reviewed

My concentration didn’t waver watching this Russian film, high recommendation given how hard it has been to concentrate lately

Spellbinding: Yuliya Vysotskaya as Lyuda in Dear Comrades! Credit: © Films Boutique
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  • Dear Comrades!

    Curzon Home Cinema, from 15 January

Andrei Konchalovsky’s Dear Comrades! is based on a true event and set in 1962 in the Russian city of Novocherkassk where the local factory, the Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant, went on strike. This doesn’t sound especially sexy, I know, but it is superbly acted and so rivetingly told my concentration did not waver for an instant which, given how hard it has been to concentrate lately, is high recommendation indeed.

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