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Children of the Revolution
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Overview

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6.0/10   1,475 votes
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Director:
Peter Duncan
Writer:
Peter Duncan (written by)
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Release Date:
30 April 1997 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Tagline:
What do you do when your father is no ordinary Joe? more
Plot:
Few knew that Stalin spent his last night in the arms of a young Australian woman. Few still knew that... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
6 wins & 8 nominations more
User Comments:
LOVE COMRADE more (24 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Judy Davis ... Joan

Sam Neill ... Nine

F. Murray Abraham ... Stalin

Richard Roxburgh ... Joe

Rachel Griffiths ... Anna

Geoffrey Rush ... Welch
Russell Kiefel ... Barry Rogers
John Gaden ... Prof. C.W. 'Wilf' Wilke
Ben McIvor ... Joe - 8 Years (as Ben McIver)
Marshall Napier ... Brendan Shaw
Ken Radley ... Bernard Shaw
Fiona Press ... Mavis Craig
Alex Menglet ... Yuri Nikolayev
Rowan Woods ... Col Slansky

Barry Langrishe ... Ted
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for some strong sexuality and language.
Runtime:
101 min
Country:
Australia
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby

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Goofs:
Continuity: A newspaper refers to the "LEA" several scenes before Young Joe forms this organization. more
Quotes:
Zachary Welch: [in reference to the pub closing] I don't know, frankly, how we'll ever get the revolution going with 6 o'clock closing. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Who Is Bernard Tapie? (2001) more
Soundtrack:
L'Internationale more

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LOVE COMRADE, 6 August 2003
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Author: Didier (Didier-Becu) from Gent, Belgium

This must be one of the most refreshing surprises I saw in a long time! Looks boring but it's ultrahilarious. In documentary style we learn something about Australia's dirty history (well this is a satire so don't check out the net for verification, okay?) We go back in the early fifties at where we find an Australian communist Joan Fraser (Judy davis) who really would give her life for the red star, it goes so far that she can arrange to meet the man Stalin himself (all of course before the public knew of his slaughters) and what Joan never expected...she ends up in bed with Stalin but as the man is walking on his last feet, he dies... Agent Nine (Sam Neil) tells her she's a hero who saved Russia and that same night she also ends up in his bed.... Not knowing what to do Joan returns to Australia finding out that she is pregnant. She doesn't tell her Australian boyfriend who the father of her child is....but the poor b*****d accepts. But soon trouble happens when agent Nine returns to the land of the kangaroos...cos the question is : who is the father? He or Stalin? Things of hilarious things are following and we follow the days of the child Joe welch (Richard Roxburgh). For communist mum he's a perfect child...always to be seen at manifestations against the Vietnamwar but then the nightmare strikes...Joe falls in love with a female cop! Really it's totally hilarious even if the personages always stay sober but it's the kind of script that leaves you not one minute in silence. A perfect film from a rather unknown director, see it!!!!

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