“Russia” will show a film-comprehension of the “industrial past” of the Urals
The XXXII documentary film festival “Russia” taking place in Yekaterinburg invites to the premiere: the screening of the film “Russia – Phoenix?” will take place at the House of Cinema as part of out-of-competition events.
This year – thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the newborn country stepped into a new era. Someone thinks that at this moment the door has finally opened to a bright future, to political and spiritual freedoms and a saving market economy. For others, it is a catastrophe, the consequences of which echo today.
The film “Russia-Phoenix?” created by the joint efforts of the entire creative team of the Yekaterinburg Film Company “Snega” under the direction of the director and general director of the festival Georgy Negashev according to the script by Valentin Lukyanin. It is a logical continuation of the famous TV series “Equal to the Greatest Battles”, made by the same creative team. The series was dedicated to the process of evacuation of industrial facilities to the Urals during the Great Patriotic War. The action of the new motion picture unfolds around an unprecedented history of the scale of de-industrialization, which began in Russia in the 90s and continues to this day.
The heroes of the film are our fellow countrymen: Minister of Industry and Science of the Sverdlovsk Region Sergey Perestoronin, Doctor of Geographical Sciences, Professor Yevgeny Animitsa, political scientist Dmitry Evstafiev, Doctor of Economics, Professor Vladimir Shemetov, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergey Glazyev, Candidate of History Sci., scientific editor of Uralvagonzavod Sergey Ustyantsev. And also – the inhabitants of Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Tagil, Sysert, Verkhnyaya Salda, Kizel, Tobolsk and many cities that until recently flourished as industrial centers, and today they live in very different ways …
The Urals are historically a factory land. Cultural and artistic figures are now actively engaged in comprehension of the “industrial past” (for example, at the Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art or at the site of a former factory in Sysert). A plant for a citizen of Urals is not just a place of work, it is a way of life and a condition for survival. Is the development of the Urals and all of Russia possible without factories? “Who are we, where are we from and where are we going?” – the question, not accidentally located on the roof of the closed and doomed to demolition Instrument-making plant, standing in the very heart of the Ural capital, the authors of the picture are trying to give their answer to.
Screening of the film “Russia – Phoenix?” will take place in the big hall of the House of Cinema on October 19 at 18.30. The entrance, as well as to all the events of the festival, is free.