ineligible_flower
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This film is rather non-standard. Hope it will be translated in the other languages except Russian. I don't want to include spoilers, but the film is in a way unique in how it portrays the current political situation.
As I've mentioned in my previous review, Stalin was Georgian, Khrushchev was Ukranian, Beria was Georgian, not sure about the others.
USSR was not Russia but a country comprised of republics of people of different nationalities.
Another reviewer said: "I know that not every actor is gifted with the ability of putting on a convincing Russian accent, but it just felt really weird to me watching someone with a northern accent pretending to be a Russian cabinet minister. For example, because Steve Buscemi doesn't try to disguise his natural US accent, I thought he was some sort of American ambassador to the government, until I realised he was part of it."
An explanation for it is: In the USSR the Russian language was sort of lingua franca, so the characters speaking Standard English or the higher class accents would be the Moscow educated elite. As Khruschev was Ukranian, the American English fits very well, as Ukranian used to sound as a "Relaxed Russian, spoken by peasants" (this is a huge approximation, I'm just trying to explain). Stalin and Beria, being Georgian, should have a strong regional accent as well. And some of the other leaders originally were from working class, as this is what the Bolsheviks ideology was about, that the working class became the ruling class. This is why regional accents and working class accents are appropriate in this film.
As for "the Russian accent", there's no such accent as English is not an official language in Russia. I would agree that there's an Indian accent, for example, as English is an official language in India. What people consider as the Russian accent is just native Russians speaking English at an A2-B1 level. And obviously there are lots of Russians who speak English without the so called Russian accent.
Another reviewer said: "I know that not every actor is gifted with the ability of putting on a convincing Russian accent, but it just felt really weird to me watching someone with a northern accent pretending to be a Russian cabinet minister. For example, because Steve Buscemi doesn't try to disguise his natural US accent, I thought he was some sort of American ambassador to the government, until I realised he was part of it."
An explanation for it is: In the USSR the Russian language was sort of lingua franca, so the characters speaking Standard English or the higher class accents would be the Moscow educated elite. As Khruschev was Ukranian, the American English fits very well, as Ukranian used to sound as a "Relaxed Russian, spoken by peasants" (this is a huge approximation, I'm just trying to explain). Stalin and Beria, being Georgian, should have a strong regional accent as well. And some of the other leaders originally were from working class, as this is what the Bolsheviks ideology was about, that the working class became the ruling class. This is why regional accents and working class accents are appropriate in this film.
As for "the Russian accent", there's no such accent as English is not an official language in Russia. I would agree that there's an Indian accent, for example, as English is an official language in India. What people consider as the Russian accent is just native Russians speaking English at an A2-B1 level. And obviously there are lots of Russians who speak English without the so called Russian accent.