Comrade Chkalov Crosses the North Pole (1990)

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Original Title: Переход товарища Чкалова через Северный полюс

Release Date: March 25, 1990

Runtime: 24 minutes

Budget: $0.0

Revenue: $0.0

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.