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Hammer & Tickle: The Communist Joke Book is a 2006 documentary film about nature of Russian political jokes under the powerful and socially restrictive Communist regime of the Soviet Union and her satellite nations. The film's name exemplifies the kind of mockery or criticism of the regime that the Soviet government would have found to be disagreeable by playing on the symbol of communism itself, the hammer and sickle. The film tells the story of the power that jokes had to enable social and political change and advance personal freedoms from within the USSR - the film's opening scene takes quote from George Orwell's 1984: "Every joke is a tiny revolution."
Original Release
01/08/2007
US Release
04/30/2007
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Mikhail Gorbachev | Self |
Václav Havel | Self |
Wojciech Jaruzelski | Self |
Roy Medvedev | Self |
Ronald Reagan | Self |
Günter Schabowski | Self |
Peter Sodann | Self |
Lech Walesa | Self |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Mikhail Gorbachev | Self |
Václav Havel | Self |
Wojciech Jaruzelski | Self |
Roy Medvedev | Self |
Ronald Reagan | Self |
Günter Schabowski | Self |
Peter Sodann | Self |
Lech Walesa | Self |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Thor Halvorssen | Executive Producer |
Ben Lewis | Executive Producer |
Fiona O'Doherty | Executive Producer |
Christine Camdessus | Producer |
Luca Chiari | Producer |
Leah Mallen | Producer |
Moose Pagan | Producer |