"The news that Andrei Sergeevich Konchalovsky's film" Dear Comrades! "

nominated for the Oscar from Russia - this, of course, is a very correct decision.

This picture, firstly, was made by a master, and this already speaks of a high professional level, not to mention the content.

The master is famous, big, big.

This already speaks of the quality of the picture ... Secondly, the theme that was taken for this new work, it is, of course, so terrible and difficult ... Painful points of our history are concentrated in it, in it reflections on the fate of the country, the people , about all the difficult path that our country has always followed, ”said Nemchinskaya.

According to her, this is "very serious work."

“One can only hope that a wide audience will watch it with great interest and welcome this work,” she concluded. 

Earlier, the chairman of the Russian Oscar Committee, Vladimir Menshov, announced that Andrei Konchalovsky's film Dear Comrades!

nominated from Russia for the American Oscar.

The action of the tape takes place in Novocherkassk in the summer of 1962 against the backdrop of a strike by workers at the Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant, provoked, in particular, by higher prices and lower wages.

The world premiere of the film took place at the Venice Film Festival, where he received a special jury prize.

The film also won the Best Director award at the Chicago Film Festival.