This intense black-and-white film redramatizes the horrific 1962 massacre in Novocherkassk, in the southeastern corner of Russia, at which between 26 and 80 persons were killed for peacefully protesting hikes in food costs.
Wages were lowered. Hunger was killing people.
A staunch defender of
Stalin, protagonist passionate totes the party line, but knows socialism is a
disaster. Yuliya
Vysotskaya stars as this Lyuda who actually has a high-up
position in the party. She feels all instigators against the regime must be
killed, but it all comes back to backfire on her and when her daughter who
marched in the protest goes missing, she sets out to find her. However, she seems
to be a little less naive about the goodness of the party. A really great film
about a dark moment - largely forgotten and those implied swore to secrecy.
Though people thought it was the army that shot upon the crowd, it was in fact
the KGB. The tragic event comes to live again in this film - a town massacre in
Russia’s brutal past that is largely forgotten.
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