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Song of Russia (1944)
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February 1944 (USA) moreUser Comments:
"Song of Stalin" would be more like it... moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Robert Taylor | ... | John Meredith | |
| Susan Peters | ... | Nadya Stepanova | |
| John Hodiak | ... | Boris Bulganov | |
| Robert Benchley | ... | Hank Higgins | |
| Felix Bressart | ... | Petrov | |
| Michael Chekhov | ... | Ivan Stepanov | |
| Darryl Hickman | ... | Peter Bulganov | |
| Jacqueline White | ... | Anna Bulganov | |
| Patricia Prest | ... | Stasha Bulganov | |
| Joan Lorring | ... | Sonia | |
| Vladimir Sokoloff | ... | Alexander Meschkov | |
| Leo Mostovoy | ... | Yanovich | |
| Leo Bulgakov | ... | Professor Faber | |
| Zoia Karabanova | ... | Natasha Bulganov | |
| Konstantin Shayne | ... | Wounded Soldier (as Konstantine Shayne) |
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107 minCountry:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)Certification:
Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | USA:Approved (PCA #9484) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review)Fun Stuff
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Director Gregory Ratoff collapsed on the set on 29 June 1943; Laslo Benedek took over as director for the remainder of the principal photography and for the October 1943 retakes. It is not known who directed the retakes needed in September 1943. moreSoundtrack:
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Who knew that life under a brutal totalitarian regime could be so carefree? Even though the film was made for World War II propaganda purposes, the inanities that litter this film have to be seen to be believed. (That would be difficult, I know, since it is not available on videotape. or DVD.)Among the aspects of Russian life, circa 1941, to which this film introduces us are: town meeting democracy, freedom of religion, rural peasants who eat hearty meals at tables set with china, crystal and silver, and on and on. Soviet barbarities are played down or, more usually, ignored altogether. I saw this film in Washington around 1983 as part of a twin bill with the other infamous WWII paeon to Stalin's Russia, "Mission to Moscow." I think the latter was, in places, at least a bit more honest than this rose-colored clunker. If ever you wondered why Congress went hunting for Communists in Hollywood, check out these two films.