Crimea (2017)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Crimea |
| Original title | Krym / Крым |
| Country of production | Russia |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alexei Pimanov |
| script |
Vladimir Bragin , Alexei Pimanow |
| production | Alexei Pimanov |
| music | Oleg Wolando |
| camera | Vladimir Wlimov |
| occupation | |
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Crimea (AKA Крым / Krym ) is a Russian propaganda - film drama directed by Alexei Pimanow from the year 2017 . The script comes from the director, who also acts as a producer, with the participation of Vladimir Bragin.
action
The depiction of the events surrounding the Crimean crisis , known from the Russian media , is embedded in a Romeo and Juliet story.
Summer 2013: In Mangup -Kale, a former fortified hilltop settlement in Crimea , a film about the old Ukraine is being shot. Sanja, the son of an officer in the Ukrainian army from Sevastopol, and Alyona, a journalist from Kiev , get to know each other during Alyona's filming and develop a relationship with each other.
In February 2014, Sanja and his friend Wenja came to the Ukrainian capital Kiev and met Alyona again on the Majdan Nezalezhnosti ("Independence Square"), where protests were taking place at the time . Alyona and Mykola Prilepa, one of her friends, stand behind the protesters and support them, while Sanja distances herself from their actions. At the same time, strangers were throwing Molotov cocktails at the soldiers of the Berkut Special Forces near the Valery Lobanovsky Stadium . Sasha comes to the aid of a Berkut soldier who has caught fire.
When Sanja, Wenja and other young men from Kiev return to Crimea, their home, through Cherkassy Oblast , their buses are ambushed by Ukrainian nationalists from the Right Sector Organization . Bombs fall, buses are burned, many people, including Wenja, are killed. Sanja, with the help of one of the nationalists, manages to escape and flee to his home. In the following time, there were repeated arguments between Sanja and Alyona about the events in the Ukraine, which both judge completely different.
Sanja, who in the meantime has made friends with the young soldier Peter, whom he has assisted, drives with him to Simferopol , where they await the arrival of a “friendship train” of the nationalists. Shortly before the train arrives, Peter notices a sniper on a nearby roof, who fatally injures him a little later and disappears undetected. Sanja is stunned by the death of his newly won friend. When Russian helicopters fly over Simferopol a little later and MTWs deploy, this is an indication for Sanja that Russia has come to the rescue.
Although the views of Sanja and Alyona now diverge even further, both are unwilling to be without each other. They meet in a hotel where they love each other passionately. However, the events of the following days and weeks drive a wedge between the young couple and both of them ever further apart.
Summer 2015: Alyona comes to Mangup-Kale again to shoot a film, but Sanja can't find her there anymore. He is in the combat zone in the east of the Ukraine and therefore calls Alyona, but the connection suddenly breaks, with guns and machine guns being fired in the background, and Alyona's gaze is blank as she directs him into the heavy silence.
Production, background
The film goes back to an idea of the Russian Defense Minister Sergei Kuschugetowitsch Shoigu and was partly financed by the Ministry of Defense and the State Film Foundation (around 400 million rubles for the film itself and 150 for its advertising campaign). The director Alexei Pimanow is also the director of the media holding "Red Star" of the Russian armed forces. He previously shot numerous television series that are set in the Soviet Union. The Ministry of Education issued a “recommendation” to promote the film Crimea in schools .
The English title is Crimea .
reception
The film premiered in Russia on September 28, 2017. According to Rosbalt.ru, some movie theaters in Saint Petersburg remained almost or completely empty on a few days. Schools had been asked by the authorities to organize visits to the film.
According to a review by the daily Die Welt, this story, based on the Kremlin construction plans, is "a continuation of the propaganda right into the cinema: Russia, always surrounded by enemies, is infallible." On "Poster Daily", Maria Kuwschinova wrote that apparently there was still a belief in propaganda films in the minds of the older generation. In Novaya Gazeta , two authors called the film “a repetition of the propaganda clichés that were hastily invented in 2014”. The review on the Russian film review website yakinolub.ru attested that the film was cynical in everything: “cynical characters, cynical events, cynical morals”.
Web links
- Crimea in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Film Krim (2017) review
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↑ a b Pavel Lokshin: propaganda film "Crimea" - the love tearjerker for annexation
In: The World , September 18, 2017. Accessed April 17, 2018th - ↑ The film "Crimea" is shown in St. Petersburg in front of empty halls , rosbalt.ru, October 3, 2017 (Russian).
- ↑ In Voronezh, school principals are encouraged to send students to the film "Krim" , Salt, September 7, 2017
- ↑ Man and the Law: Maria Kuwschinowa on the film "Krim" , 28. September 2017
- ↑ Ancient legends about the "Crimea" , Novaya Gazeta, September 30, 2017 (Russian).