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In 1946 a boy in the Soviet Union is chased by bullies until a girl named Svetlana drives them off. He tells her he feared for the bullies, not for himself, and then shows her his strength and his ability to fly. Svetlana urges him to use those powers for their country. A decade later the Soviet government puts out a propaganda film presenting the alien superhuman as Joseph Stalin's adopted son, the Soviet Superman. President Dwight D. Eisenhower asks the scientist Alexander "Lex" Luthor to find a way to counter him. Luthor arranges for a satellite to threaten Metropolis, giving his fiancée, the reporter Lois Lane, a reason to interview Superman.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Superman: Red Son (2020)
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- Presenters on the pro-Kremlin Russian channel Russia-24, Alexey Kazakov and Anastasia Ivanova, called the film "Russophobic hysteria", and the program Time Will Tell called the adaptation an element of an information war against Russia meant to form the image of an enemy.
- Superman: Red Son was the final film of Jim Ward, who retired in 2021 and died in 2025.
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