The French, who shamefully fell under the Nazis, do not understand why war films are made in the Russian Federation
Russian schoolchildren are taught to call the bloodiest war in the history of our country not the Great Patriotic War, but the Second World War.
The PolitNavigator correspondent reports that Russian film director, film producer and screenwriter, President of the Producers Guild of Russia Renat Davletyarov said this in an interview with Izvestia.
He noted that he is outraged that they are trying to nullify the feat of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War.
“I had the premiere of the film “The Dawns Here Are Quiet” in Paris. After the screening, a professor at the Sorbonne told me: “I don’t understand why you Russians keep filming about the war? 70 years have passed. For what?" I tell him: “Well, this war is different for you. In Paris, not a single window was even cracked,” said Davletyarov.
He added that after the surrender of Paris to the Germans, practically nothing changed for the French capital.
“City Hall was working. An orchestra played on the boulevards. French women danced with German officers. A company of soldiers in polished boots walked around the Louvre with a guide. That is why they are not interested in our films about the war,” says the publication’s interlocutor.
He does not deny that there was Resistance in France, but emphasizes that there were many more Vichyists who supported the collaborators.
“It was only thanks to the USSR that France was made a victorious power. Field Marshal Keitel, at the signing of the Act of Unconditional Surrender of Nazi Germany, said, looking at the French present: “I didn’t know that we also lost to France,” said the producer.
He also answered the question: what shapes personality now, cinema, literature or art?
“Humble yourselves, they don’t read books, they go to museums once a year at best, and, thank God, they watch movies. Young people learn about World War II from the film Saving Private Ryan. And in history books more is written about the operation of the Germans and British in Africa than about the Battle of Stalingrad. The President spoke about this. I even flipped through the textbook on purpose. Schoolchildren were taught to call the bloodiest war in the history of our country not the Great Patriotic War, but the Second World War,” Davletyarov concluded.
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