The episode "Cinema" from the series "The Great Russian Lie" tells about the cinema as a platform for promoting the political interests of the Kremlin.
Modern Russian cinema from year to year reflects the public policy of the state and shapes public attitudes. The world of Russian films and TV series normalizes arbitrariness, romanticizes cruelty, and glorifies power structures and the apparatus of repression.
For years, the Russians dehumanized Ukrainians through cinema, forming an image of the enemy out of them. And with the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Russia continues to make propaganda films, continuing to deliver its big lie to the audience through cinema screens.
The experts of the episode were:
- President of the Polish Film Academy Dariusz Jablonski;
- film distributor, producer Denys Ivanov;
- the founder of the KZfaq channel "Squad of Cinematographers" Vitaliy Hordiyenko;
- film reviewer Lena Chichenina;
- journalist, TV producer, writer Peter Pomerantsev;
- political technologist Serhii Haidai;
- Maria Domanska, senior employee of the Russian Studies Department of the Center for Oriental Studies (Poland);
- writer Andrii Kokotyukha;
- Lyubov Tsybulska, an expert on countering hybrid threats.
Watch other episodes of the Great Russian Lie cycle:
The fiction that the world believed: How Russia REWRITES history in its favor | BIG RUSSIAN LIE #1 - • Вигадка, у яку повірив...
Great Russian literature is FAKE!? How the Kremlin uses it for war | BIG RUSSIAN LIES #2
"The Great Russian Lie" is a series of films about a country living in an atmosphere of informational sanitation, in which the narratives of Russian propaganda are debunked.
For centuries, Russia has used history, literature, cinema, art, sports, and media as instruments of propaganda to advance political interests. It calls itself the heir of Kievan Rus and justifies claims to the lands of neighboring states.
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