A look at Communist musicals that strove to be ideologically correct - and entertaining, besides.A look at Communist musicals that strove to be ideologically correct - and entertaining, besides.A look at Communist musicals that strove to be ideologically correct - and entertaining, besides.
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- 1 nomination
Margarita Andrushkovich
- Self
- (as Margarita Andruschkovitsch)
Nikolai Bulganin
- Self (watches military parade)
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Nikita Khrushchev
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Marina Ladynina
- Various roles
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Vladimir Lenin
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Anastas Mikoyan
- Self (watches military parade)
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Vyacheslav Molotov
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
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- Crazy creditsThe end credits dedicate the film "to Karl Marx, without whom none of this would have been necessary."
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Movie Show: Episode dated 15 June 1997 (1997)
Featured review
It was a hoot
This film was tremendously entertaining. Even it you're not an obscure documentary aficionado, it was a lot of fun. The lengths they went to to make socialism seem like fun were really hilarious. And finding out that Stalin was a fan of musicals was also funny, since he really didn't seem the type to enjoy a lot of light-hearted singing and dancing. The singing pig farmers were also great. And the directors telling about how they were told to make movies that made socialism fun when they couldn't run their lights for more than 10 minutes without bringing down the East German power grid really just summed up the whole experience.
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- stan-62
- Aug 28, 2002
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- Истсайдская история
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- Runtime1 hour 18 minutes
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