What is it about?
The Soviet system was expecting film makers to be socially critical and bring new types of heroes to the screen. The person with human weaknesses was more understandable to viewers than the super-hero of socialist realism. However, the social critique had to be accurately measured, the decisions of the CPSU congresses were not to be questioned.
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The article shows that the authorities could have been criticized in a totalitarian society, if the critic did not contradict the Party's general objectives. At the same time, differences between the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s are drawn out.
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This article is one of the first attempts to analyse Estonian documentaries in Soviet times. According to widely spread opinion, only propaganda films were created at that time, but studies show that there were people in state owned and controlled studios, who wanted to create cinema art, focusing on people and humanity.
Riho Vastrik
Tallinna Ulikool
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This page is a summary of: Heroes and Social Criticism in the Works of Valeria Anderson, Baltic Screen Media Review, December 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/bsmr-2017-0009.
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