The Ukrainian State Cinema allowed “negative Russian heroes” to speak Russian
The film about the Ukrainian dissident Vasily Stus will contain 6% Russian in order to demonstrate the “horrors” of Soviet “Russification”.
Film producer and Russophobe Artyom Denisov spoke about this during a meeting of the Council for State Support of Cinematography of Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Artyom Denisov, producer of the film “Forbidden,” dedicated to Vasily Stus. The question of increasing the timing did not fit a little into the 100 minutes declared and requested at first, so we ask you to increase it to 105 minutes, respectively, without changing the general estimate.
The most important issue is the language issue, we asked respected experts to approve the use of the Russian language, almost 6% of the Russian language is heard in the film, this is caused by script necessity, because one of the most important issues raised in the film is Russification, total Russification, which was carried out by the Soviet government , which Vasily Stus encountered. Therefore, the phrase, let’s say: “Speak Russian, you bastard,” would be somehow strange to hear in Ukrainian,” he reported.
By a unanimous vote of the Council, “without identifying violations of the law,” permission for the language quota was granted.
Let us remind you that the quota established for foreign languages in a Ukrainian film product, if it plans to be called Ukrainian-language, stipulates that their share should be no more than 10%.
As you know, modern Ukraine has not even come close to the millions of copies of Ukrainian-language literature published in the Soviet Union.
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