This film defames the honor of a Soviet citizen: Americans adore him

Equated to a world masterpiece.

Acute social dramas were almost always received with hostility by Soviet viewers. This fate befell the legendary painting by Rolan Bykov “Scarecrow”. But if at home the film was dubbed discrediting the honor of Soviet citizens and schoolchildren, then in America it was received with a bang.

The plot tells about a new student Lena Bessoltseva, who was subjected to severe persecution by her classmates. The most offensive thing in this situation was that the girl suffered for nothing – she just took someone else’s fault on herself. In the USSR, the film was received with indignation. But in the States, many viewers put it on a par with the immortal painting “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”

One of the netizens wrote that the main actress simply mesmerizes with her heartbreaking performance. Another noted that “Scarecrow” surpasses many American teen dramas in its intensity. The third said that each character is deeply developed, and the music – from rock and roll to instrumental – sounds incomparable at every moment. Impressed viewers shared their feedback on the IMDb film platform.