Though never driven solely, or even primarily by box office concerns, Soviet film industry insiders nonetheless had their eyes on what viewers rejected and embraced. Runtime 2 hours 15 minutes. Alexander Fedorov. Rather than promote a socialist world as it should be, as the socialist realist credo stipulated, these film-makers showed the period of so-called developed socialism as it was, drawing particular attention, to the degree that they could, to the social and political indignities, inequities, and injustices of life under Brezhnev. Georgiy Daneliya.
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