A collected tour of Ukrainian history

Initially, the wars are measured in days. As days become weeks and months, however, different metrics take: material use; meter territory conquered and lost; Climbing the numbers of prisoners and victims. And when it comes to Ukraine, the film world has its own parties for Dolor’s – more crowds “Ukraine Var documentary,” the grenades celebrated the manufacturer, Aleksandar Rodnianski (“Leviathan”, “Loveless”, “Beanpole”, etc.), together with his co-director Andrii Alferov (“Disdent”) now his novel. He led the family history of Rodnianski – which was intertwined with the story of the Ukrainian cinema of the Rodnian Film Manufacturer of the Third Generation – “Notes of true criminal“It lasts in the last 80 years or so to make Ukrainian history and finds it to address war, catastrophe and crimes.

This is a powerful but a pessimistic project, starting from the title that is, like a great friend of Julia Lokoketeva, “My side friends”, it is the recognition of the course humor and the status of persona-non-grata. After the Russian invasion of 2022. year, Rodnianski proclaimed a “foreign agent”, was convicted and convicted in absentia for 8 1/2 years in prison. However, the title is also indicative of film quality of film, which enables efficient parallel lighting to be drawn from the collision of events that are different in era and nature, but often deflectly similar.

Point columns: The introductory recording is a nearly incomprehensible awful image of German sisters. Sorting a German nurse through what our brains slowly are slowly registered as a bunch of bubbering babies. The logical connection with what is followed by less explicit than figurative: and here is a certain hair of perspective before cyclical fears of recent history in Ukraine enter focus. And during the film Sumber two hours, the Rodnian narrative to the chronology of cixes. Sometimes using shots that shot during his early career as a documentary, and sometimes finding an archival report from the current conflict to release Chernobyl to the Babin Yar massacre in which the Nazis killed Nazis in the two-day period.

But the presentation is all except the generic cataloging of the crime. The editor Nazim Kadri-Zadei is reduced to the rhythm, where the context is effectively established, and then fewer stories that show central ideas play on their own tempo. Chernobyl approaches through a refugee family from Tajikistan who escaped the war in his homeland and came to settle in front of the quarantined area. “You better die slowly out of radiation,” the reasons for the father like his child is nearby “, but from bullets.” Babin Yar is covered, but so is the memory of the 25th anniversary that it has become a traumatic event when many of those attending, including Rodniansko grandfather, after that persecuted to the Soviet authorities. And some of the most protective comments in the current war comes through a lens from the trial of young people by Russian soldiers for the murder of Ukrainian civilians.

What gives “notes of the right criminal” added textures, however, the passages of film directed by Rodnianski, Felix Sobolev were frequent. Tyrant in the classroom in which Rodnaan still identified as a great humanist through his work, many of Sobolev documentaries follow scientific discoveries and experiments. These clips give a doc the wider dimension of imagination: he records a discipled Neanderthal skull and notes that certain cracks and stricters show that he died violent death. Later, a test on children sitting around the utility pot that is sweetened with sugar – all but the last part that is very salty. Most salt dishes agree that their part is sweet after their peers say; The instinct for compliance is strong.

It is a trail to consider that some of the participants, small children in the early 1970s, will probably have children of their army now. This generational inheritance is a truly principle of film, such as shown parts that have adults Son Sasa Rodnian. Early, we learn that it was Saša, living in Kiev, because they fell the first Russian bombs, which called her father to tell him that the invasion began. That moment, Rodniana claims that he will be complicated, because it will forever be a split line between “pre” and “after” and “after”. We later get shots of Sasha that we visit the grave of your grandfather and realize that each consecutive generation of this family knew their horrors and that everyone probably had a moment when they realized that the cycle would not understand. It is a deep, but desperate note to leave us, with each lip just peace before another storm. Ukraine, we need to believe, will know peace again. But inevitably, it will also know the war.