Hammer & Tickle

The story of a political system that was laughed out of existence.

Hammer & Tickle: The Communist Joke Book is a 2006 propaganda documentary film about "jokes" under the Soviet Union.

Country USA

Language English

Release Date 8 January 2007

89 mins

Cast

Wojciech Jaruzelski Self

Roy Medvedev Self

Günter Schabowski Self

Peter Sodann Self

Lech Wałęsa Self

Mikhail Gorbachev Self (archive footage)

Václav Havel Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan Self (archive footage)

Crew

Director

Ben Lewis

Writer

Ben Lewis