Posted on 03/01/2018 9:43:35 AM PST by Krosan
The film pulls no punches and describes exactly what it was like during the "good old", bad old days of Soviet Russia.
Where is this movie showing? Theaters or netflix or ?
It was in theaters at least very recently and it seems to be on Amazon and iTunes. I couldn’t verify as I am currently browsing from my phone.
I thought Robert Duvall did a good job of capturing Stalin’s personality, even though the makeup they used was ridiculous.
I can’t think of anything funny when I think of Stalin.
Google will lead you in the right direction /s
Thanks.
“I can’t think of anything funny when I think of Stalin.”
He’s dead?
To answer the frequent question.
Yes it was in theaters recently, but now it is also online in both Amazon and iTunes.
I myself stole it in the internet, but now my son is coming home from school for the weekend and I make amends with buying it for him (because I want the film makers to make
money).
I just saw the film. I received the disk from Netflix. All the horror in the background can be hard on sensitive viewers. I appreciated it, as it was real and people should see that Communism was as bad as Nazism.
On a numerical basis, communism was much worse than Nazism. A good estimate has Stalin murdering twice as many people as Hitler, with Lenin not far behind Hitler.
The movie had its funny moments and it does a good job of depicting the somewhat irrational dynamics of committees. In this case, the committee decides life and death and other matters for millions of people.
The movie is very clever and well done. I’m glad I saw it and I think most freerepublic readers will like it too. I like anti-communist movies. Hollywood is extremely reluctant to make them. This movie had European producers. Many in the cast are older American actors. That’s your “Hollywood” contribution.
No movie could possibly be darker than “The Chekist”.
You’re probably right. Chekist was a Russian film.
Hollywood’s reluctance to make anti-communist films appears to vindicate the HUAC investigation of the movie industry.
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