Russia’s Oscar© 2020 Entry for Best International Feature: ‘Dear Comrades’ by Andrei Konchalovsky

A stalwart Stalin Communist Party member is put to a test of faith when her daughter is thought to have been killed in a workers’ uprising in an industrial town against the socialist Communist state. Quickly suppressed by force, The Novocherkassk Massacre took place in June 1962 during Nikita Khrushchev’s…

Sydney Levine
SydneysBuzz The Blog
7 min readNov 23, 2020

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Sydney’s 40+ years in international film business include exec positions in acquisitions, twice selling FilmFinders, the 1st film database, teaching & writing.