Kiev admitted that Ukrainian writers could not replace Prilepin and Sorokin
The main characters for Ukrainian cinema, which depends on foreign sponsors, are foreigners.
Ukrainian writer and screenwriter Andrei Kokotyukha writes about this in an author’s column on the pages of the Kyiv magazine “New Time,” noting that soon after the ban on Russian artists and books in Ukraine, space was freed up for books, films and music of their own production.
“But soon the musicians began to complain about the failures of the tour - people don’t go because they don’t know, and there’s no money for massive advertising. Whereas Russian artists easily filled the halls, because the information space worked for them, presenting what was Russian as ours and exploiting the nostalgia for the so-called common cultural space. Ukrainian writers also hung their noses. It turns out that if Zakhar Prilepin is banned from entering the country, and Vladimir Sorokin simply decided not to come here, their place will be taken not by a domestic master of artistic expression, but by the fashionable Frenchman Frederic Beigbeder,” admits Kokotyukha.
According to him, a similar situation is developing in cinema, where the Ukrainian side, in order to attract foreign sponsors, needs to “show flexibility and try to please partners with all its might,” and Ukrainians in such projects, even with equal shares of participation, “each time look like poor relatives.”
“To get an American partner to create a joint film project, the main character needs to be made American. Negotiations with European colleagues are taking place on the same terms. The main characters of Ukrainian films are Poles, Slovaks, Italians, Germans, Chinese, Kokotyukha laments. - Okay, let's say we have half a million dollars, your share is the same. We are equal. In response we hear: if you do not agree to our terms, you will not have our half a million.”
Earlier, as PolitNavigator reported, Ukrainian writer Taras Prokhasko announced a “targeted boycott” World Cup.
In addition, the Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovich threw a tantrum because of popularity in the West, Dostoevsky and Chekhov.
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