Original title: Proshchay, Amerika!
Copyright: the Mosfilm Studio, the Gosfilmofond of Russia, 1951-1995
Format: narrative feature
Carrier: DVD
Color: color
Length: 69"; 8 p., 2032 m.
Original language: Russian
English subtitles: yes

Film crew
Director: Oleksander Dovzhenko and Yulia Sontseva
Script writer: Oleksander Dovzhenko
Director of the re-edited release: Igor Bitiukov
Script editor of archival version: Vladimir Antropov and Rostislav Yurenev
Cinematographer: Yuri Yekelchik
Cameraman of the re-edited release: Boris Bondarenko
Production designer: Semen Mandel
Original Music: Dmitry Shostakovich

Film cast
Lilia Gritsenko, Nikolay Gritsenko, Grigory Kirillov, Yuri Liubimov, Liudmila Shagalova, Yan Osis, Grigory Shpigel, and others

Synopsis
An unfinished film by Oleksander 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. The project was suspended by order of the Soviet leadership. The surviving footage contains six parts and two segments of screen tests. For eight years the footage was held at the Mosfil Studio. In September of 1958, it was passed over to the Gosfilmofond of Russia. The first-time screening of the restored footage with comments by R. Yurenev took place on January 12, 1996 at the Moscow Kinotsent facility and later that year at the Berlin International Film Festival as part of its Panorama program.