Farewell, America! (1951)
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.
Cast
Liliya Gritsenko
Anna Badford
Nikolai Gritsenko
Armand Haward
Yuri Lyubimov
Lyudmila Shagalova
Grigoriy Shpigel
Gotlib Roninson
Yan Yanakiyev
Rostislav Yurenev
Himself (introduction)
Aleksandr Polinskiy
Murrow
Konstantin Mikhailov
Robert Divers