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Farewell, America! (1951)

Farewell, America! (1951)

Drama Comedy
Release Date: 1951, January 1
Directors: Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Mosfilm, Mosfilm, Mosfilm
Cast: Liliya Gritsenko, Konstantin Mikhailov, Nikolai Gritsenko, Aleksandr Polinskiy, Nikolay Korshunov

Overview:

An unfinished film by Oleksandr Dovzhenko, the film is a political lampoon based on the book entitled The Truth about US Diplomats, written in 1949 by the American writer Annabel Bukar. It exposes the underhanded actions of US Embassy personnel in Moscow at the onset of the Cold War. Dovzhenko managed to shoot only a half of the film, mainly the scenes that take place in the American Embassy.