Shchors
1939, NR, 140 min.
Directed by Alexander Dovzhenko, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Yevgeni Samojlov, Ivan Skuratov.

The final film in this Dovzhenko retrospective is a socialist realist biopic commissioned by Stalin. Nikolai Shchors was a Bolshevik icon of Ukrainian origin, even though most of his old comrades had been purged by the time of this film production.

This article appears in October 11 • 2002.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.