Poles are making a film about the atrocities of the OUN-UPA
Minsk - Kyiv, October 20 (PolitNavigator, Vasily Ablyazimov) - The film, which is eagerly awaited both in Poland and by the descendants of those who suffered at the hands of the UPA in Western Ukraine, is receiving wide publicity even before its release, writes Newsweek Poland.
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“You can't make a film that pleases everyone. I have my own version, my own truth and I stick to it,” says the film’s director, Wojciech Smarzowski. “I’m Polish and I make films from a Polish point of view.”
Thus, the director of “Volyn” (this is what the film will be called) denies the assumption that a film about the massacre of Polish civilians by Ukrainian nationalists could harm relations between Ukraine and Poland.
“Will the film be violent?” – the magazine asks.
“It will be as it should be,” confirms the director.
He also denies accusations that the film is being made now at the wrong time.
“What does this mean, “right now”? There was never a good time to make a film like this, neither under the communists nor after 1989. Now this Maidan happened. It is unknown what the situation will be in Ukraine when we finish working on the film,” the director is confident.
The film received a sharply negative assessment from the Ukrainian literary community.
“I am not familiar with the script, but I know several good Ukrainian actors who received an invitation to participate in the film, and despite their ardent sympathies for the Poles, after reading their Ukrainian roles, they refused to participate in the filming. They said it was a real school of hatred. For me, this is a terrifying wake-up call,” Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko said in an interview for the Polish version of Newsweek magazine.
The premiere of Smarzhovsky’s film “Volyn” is scheduled for spring 2016. At the moment, the Polish press calls Wojciech Smarzowski the king of modern Polish cinema.
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