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Journalist Leonid Parfenov presented the first documentary film in the trilogy, “Russian Jews”, which focuses on the role of Jews in the history of the Russian Empire.
The first part of the trilogy, entitled “The first Movie. Before the revolution,” goes to rent April 14th.
The picture tells the story of how the Jews broke with the traditional way life and achieve success in the big cities, becoming a famous Russian musicians, artists and poets, but also faced harassment and violence, eventually rising to the forefront of the fight against the royal power
The director of all three films -. a regular with Sergei Parfenov Nurmamed. The first picture was shot in Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, the USA and Israel
The film uses a lot of graphics and animation:. Using motion capture technique the authors made “talking” portraits and pictures of historical figures
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Thus, Alexander I as if he reads the names of the decree for the Jews, Pyotr Stolypin plight of Affairs of the Pale of Settlement, and Maxim Gorky from the island of Capri blames notorious Beilis case.
Work on the second and third films is still ongoing. The next two parts of the trilogy will be talking about 30-year period “Soviet yudofilii”, which the authors arbitrarily restricted 1948 and Judeophobia, stop, according to the filmmakers, with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
After a preview screening of some of the first viewers of the film asked Parfenov questions about why the painting depicts the process of assimilation of the Jews in such a positive in their opinion, the key and tells in detail about the origins of anti-Semitism in Russia.
on this author of the picture said that to make a film about the consequences of having a state religion, land issues and competition in trade would be to make a movie that “represents the difference,” and he wanted to concentrate on, “that in common.” According to him, he initially chose as its theme the assimilation of the Jews.
Levitan, Shishkin vs
Parfenov story begins with a description of the life of the Jewish “towns”. Walking in the frame (for the purpose of metaphor) through the gate of the former shtetl in Ukrainian Satanov, he said that ambitious and talented Jews saw the outlook is not inside, isolated, and outside
“The history of Russian Jews of the past 150 years. – is their output in the Russian career, culture, language, general – in Russia and further into the world “- so Parfenov explains the idea of his film
One of the most striking examples of this, he believes landscape Isaac Levitan, who, as a Jew, without formally recognized higher education authorities twice evicted from Moscow, but his work went down in history as a model of “aching heart” of Russian nature image .
in the film, says that one of the two evictions, ironically, had just at the time when Levitan worked on “utterly orthodox” picture “Evening Bells”, which depicts the monastery at sunset .
at the main competitor Levitan for the title of “the most Russian” landscape – Ivan Shishkin – nature was obtained some insufficiently touching and “too German”, shares his vision in Parfenov film
. “For me the more valuable is not what Levitan twice evicted from Moscow, although it is, of course, absurd, ironic, and in the film it is said, and what Isaac Ilich was more Russian landscape painter than Ivan Shishkin. I watch as the Russian people, and that the nature of this inescapable sadness – is a mood my dear, of course “- continued Parfenov, responding to questions after the show
.” And Ivan are here … ship pine. Once jauntily he painted “-. Concluded the journalist
The film really shows a lot of positive examples where care in Russian culture served to Jews in tsarist Russia a social elevator. So, Nikolai and Anton Rubinstein, the founders of the Moscow and St. Petersburg conservatories, respectively, were brought up in a family of baptized Jews that have fallen to the change of religion from merchants and intellectuals.
Citing the example and Leonid Utesov, whose father paid for training in commercial school child Russian neighbor to because the future actor has not appeared to exceed the maximum percentage set for the number of Jews at this school.
Case Bayliss
in response to criticism that the assimilation of the film shows a very positive, Parfenov replied: “Of course, millions of people have gone to the grave unassimilated. But we do not mean it “.
In the picture impressively used imaginative reconstruction to convey the horror Kishenevskogo pogrom in 1903 and the absurdity of the trial of Mendel Beilis, was accused of” ritual murder “of a little boy in Kiev 1911.
the episode with the Beilis affair looks like a thriller, and it seems strange that no one has picked up the story as a basis for a full-length feature film.
However, Parfenov, it only serves as an indicator of public opinion before world war I, when the Jew can still be judged for what he allegedly killed a Christian child in broad daylight for his blood, but can not be found guilty
The visual solution of the film, as a whole, is the result of titanic work. Although some viewers considered “talking portraits” brute force, compliments casting actors and costumes used in the reconstruction, they are not stingy.
About the much says that some of the first viewers of the film took pictures in which the actress dancing party Salome with the treated historical chronicle – too she was like Ida Rubinstein
According Nurmamedov specially sewed an exact copy of the original costumes used in the production of “Salome”.
The director noted for this scene that, while in the future to the authors will be more newsreel footage and the opportunity to interview the events of heroes , the technical solution of the following films will not be less difficult.
from loyalty to dissident
Parfenov draws a line in the first film, linking the active participation of Jews in the revolutionary movement their position in the tsarist Russia.
“You know, it was not possible in the XX century, live in Satanov weaving shop in the middle of 21, 21, a grocery, two wine, a shoe store and a furniture – Parfyonov said, citing his own description of the above-mentioned Satanova. – This accumulated energy is spilled in all – including, in a lively revolution “Stolypin repeats a quote, tell them in 1906:” “
In the film.” The Jews throw bombs? Do you know in what conditions they live in the Western Region? You’ve seen the Jewish poor? If I lived in such conditions can be, and I would throw the bomb “.
According to Parfenov, in the trilogy it is interesting to see how passionate Russian Jews, who made up a significant proportion of the revolutionaries fought for the establishment of Soviet power and how later they began with the same zeal to oppose it within the dissident movement.
“There was a transition from the Jews the most loyal to the Soviet government to the most disloyal to the Soviet regime. Overflowing fervor that Jews make the Soviet activities in anti-Soviet activities doubly weakened the Soviet regime “, – he said
According to the trilogy of authors, they are nearing completion of filming material for the two remaining films border between..” Yudofiliey “and” anti-Semite “Parfyonov held in 1948, when employees of the Ministry of State security murdered Solomon Mikhoels, disguising it under a traffic accident.
After the premiere in Moscow on March 14, waiting for the film screenings, particularly in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Yaroslavl. The producers do not rule out that the list of cities expand. Parfyonov himself also wants to sell the rights to the film “First Channel” – although in this case, the trilogy will be shown only in full when all three films will be completed
On a question from the audience about whether special screenings planned. for a Jewish audience, the author of the picture did not give a definite answer.
Earlier, the first channel shown a film about Israel Vladimir Posner and Ivan Urgant provoked critical reactions among Russian-speaking inhabitants of the country.
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