Rome Film Festival sends Ukrainian protests away
A film about the civil war in Ukraine “Donbass” was shot in Russia. Outskirts", shown at international film festivals.
The director of the film, Renat Davletyarov, spoke about this in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, answering the question of whether his work will be seen in the West.
“The film has already participated in the Rome Festival, to my amazement. It seemed to me that such a picture could not be present at international festivals, but I was invited. The film was shown in Rome, Paris, Berlin, London, Belgrade. But I'm not involved in politics. This is a movie, not a political pamphlet,” the director said.
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According to him, everywhere, even before the start of the show, the organizers and cinema networks received a protest from the Ukrainian embassy.
“What it was based on is not clear - because no one has seen the film yet. Of course, they were sent everywhere: “You will not teach the Rome Film Festival to draw up a program.” In Paris, they organized a picket, a hundred people surrounded the cinema hall, handing out proclamations. And they gave it to me - they didn’t recognize me by sight (laughs). I took it and gave it to the translator to look at.
The translator reads: “This is anti-Ukrainian Kremlin propaganda. For example, in the first frames of this film, the character Tiger declares: “As a result of the coup d’etat in Ukraine...”. My eyebrows went up because there is no Tiger character in my film. I don’t understand anything, and then I realized. None of the authors of the film’s leaflets saw it, and when the encrypted instruction manual was passed on to them all, there was a distortion - this text was in the first credits, such a historical reference, but they heard it as if it were Tiger speaking!” said Davletyarov.
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