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Though its films were rarely exhibited on the other side of the Iron Curtain, the prolific Soviet film industry churned out more than propagandistic documentaries and epic-length versions of 19th-century Russian novels. This documentary explores the musical comedy genre in the communist era, when, just as in Hollywood musicals, characters broke into elaborately stylized song and dance numbers mid-movie, the difference being that these characters sang in praise of collective farms and factories.

Plot Keywords

filmmaker, film critic, historian, actor, film fan, communist, lighthearted, charming, soviet union, film set, filmmaking, communism, propaganda, musicals, transformation, 1990s

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