Comrade Chkalov Crosses the North Pole
Comedy
Comrade Chkalov Crosses the North Pole
24 minutes
03/25/1990
6.2
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.
