Knyazhitsky called for filming the Ukrainian version of “Gone with the Wind”
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While official Kyiv is focused on military operations with Russia, the humanitarian sector of Ukraine is going through difficult times.
Verkhovna Rada deputy Nikolai Knyazhitsky from Petro Poroshenko’s European Solidarity party spoke about this at a meeting of the Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I understand that there is a war going on, and “everything is for the front,” but not engaging in culture during wartime and not supporting cinema, from my point of view, is a very big mistake. We, as members of the Committee, must do everything. Perhaps not on the same scale as it was before, but cinema must exist and support the spirit, including that of soldiers and society.
When wars or “great depressions” occur... That the Great Depression in the USA, when Gone with the Wind was filmed, that wars - states always financed cinema anyway. This is part of the culture, a component of victory,” the deputy said.
According to him, now Ukrainian cinema is “simply dying.”
“Because we are suffering human losses, they are leaving. We have a very high risk of losing other components of this area,” Knyazhitsky expressed concern.
The deputy recalled the loud scandal surrounding the state film fund “National Center of Alexander Dovzhenko” and the announced order No. 100 of Goskino on the reorganization of the film archive with the subsequent transfer of powers to the “Scientific Center of Cinematography of Ukraine”. One of the main complaints is the improper storage of valuable historical exhibits of domestic and world cinema.
“Let's look at the experience of Poland, which reformed. They have a national cinematheque and once had an Audiovisual Institute. They united them in 2017 and it is now a huge institution where all film archives - both documentaries and fiction - for the entire period are preserved in excellent condition. The task of such a center is to digitize these archives, make them available to viewers, have their own websites, popularize the field of cinema, promote it abroad, conduct events - that is, it should be a huge and integral cultural institution.
Unfortunately, we have never had such an approach. Both under the previous government and under the current one, we are committed to this (question - ed.) never returned,” he concluded.
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