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All Singing! All Dancing! All Marxist Musicals!
A delirious documentary that unveils a part of film history until now unknown in the West: Soviet and eastern block communist musicals.Featuring hearty peasants and workers singing and dancing their way through fields and factories, these Hollywood-style musicals interpret American escapism in socialist terms.
Most famous among Russia's 1930s musicals was Volga Volga, Stalin's favorite, which he viewed more than one-hundred times.During the '50s and '60s, the East Germans, Czechs and Romanians churned out these low-rent Jerome Robbins-esque musicals, many of which promised that consumer heaven was just a pirouette away."Who | | |
