That’s wondeful. What did your students think of the film and of communism after seeing it?
70-80% of them really bought into the point of the film -- that communism makes tainted hash out of people's lives, and has an ice-cold, callous disregard toward the ruins.
A few had some admiration for Antipov/Strelnikov's idealism -- but not for his bipolar cruelty. And they unanimously despised the way they had taken away the last vestiges of earned success and luxury.
I had a dozen or so essay proposals of which the students were to write on two of them. One of them was to write a poem expressive of the film. That one was almost a universal favorite. Kids like to write poems if you let them.
I personally wrote a couple of poems each year, too.