The main film awards in Russia: What are they awarded for?

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Year of Russian cinema

2016 was named the Year of Russian Cinema in Russia. Although the majority of the population still does not realize this, cinema has always been and will be not so much a means of entertainment as a means of managing a mass audience. The control is realized in a non-structured way through the formation of models and stereotypes of behavior in the audience. The ideas and values that are shown in artistic form on a wide screen are gradually flowing into our real world. Cinematography does not develop chaotically and not by itself, but is directed in the right direction through financial mechanisms, film awards institutions and central mass media, which praise, scold or suppress films, depending on the ideas they are promoting and the quality of performance. In this review, we will look at three Russian films that received major film awards in 2016. This is the film by Anna Melikyan "About Love", Oksana Karas "Good Boy" and Alexander Mindadze "Dear Hans, dear Peter".

First, let's briefly touch on the films "About Love" and "Good Boy", reviews of which were previously published on Teach Good. The first received the Golden Eagle award back in January 2016, having appeared on the wide screen a month before, the second - the main prize of the Kinotavr in June and was shown in the box office in November. In this video, we will give only conclusions about the educational message of these pictures. Those viewers who have not watched our previous reviews dedicated to these films can familiarize themselves with them by following the links in the description.

What do the winning films teach?

So, the film "About Love" was filmed with the support of the Ministry of Culture and the Film Fund, is aimed at an audience of 16+ and is aimed at:

• perversion propaganda
• promoting free relationships
• justification of adultery and licentiousness
• discrediting the Russian people
• advertising subculture "cosplay"

The film "Good Boy", produced with the support of the Ministry of Culture, is aimed at school audiences over 12 years old and teaches that:

• intimate relationships of children with adults / with a teacher is normal
• having multiple partners is normal
• drinking alcohol and other intoxicating substances is normal
• wanting only sex from girls, acting like an animal is normal
• cheating on my wife is normal
• it's okay to be a coward
• calmly watching a weak person being bullied is normal
• parents can behave like complete idiots, you do not need to listen to them
• at school you have to do whatever you want, but not study
• teachers are wretched and vicious people
• you can win a lot of money in slot machines

Best film not to be shown to the public

Now let's move on to the third film - the film Dear Hans, Dear Peter, which won the Nika-2016 film award. Despite such an overwhelming success, the film was never shown to the general public, and it became available to ordinary viewers only in November, when it appeared on torrents. Best film not allowed to be shown to the public - what's the weirdness? I think you will soon understand. The painting "Dear Hans, Dear Peter" tells the story of a group of German engineers who work in a Soviet factory in May 1941. German specialists are engaged in the manufacture of glass for optical lenses, but their business is not going well, and against this background there are constant scandals, which they diligently pour over with alcohol.

Working everyday life of the labor collective: tantrums and alcohol throughout the film

After 40 minutes of hysterics and screams, and this is what the main characters are doing for all two hours, one of the engineers named Hans has a nervous breakdown, which ends with the explosion of the smelting furnace, the death of two people and the investigation of the NKVD incident. After the explosion, Hans gradually continues to go crazy, begs the Russian worker Peter not to betray him, rapes his friend Gretta with a chess piece, meets the Russian girl Zoya and, despite her passionate desire, refuses to sleep with her on the very first evening of their acquaintance.

A Russian girl, ready to surrender herself to a German on the very first evening, and a German woman, raped by a chess piece, amazed the jury with the Nick film award

Then the viewer is transported several months in advance, and they show Hans, who already in the role of a German officer returns to the same occupied city, enters the hairdresser, meets the very Zoya there and begins to flirt with her, substituting his throat under a sharp razor. Whether the Russian hairdresser will surrender herself to the impudent Fritz or destroy the enemy at the cost of her own life, we will never know, at this moment the final credits begin.

What ideas are promoted by the film "Dear Hans, Dear Peter"?

Although the described plot already looks quite absurd, and it is not clear why the state, represented by the Cinema Foundation, should sponsor a two-hour hysteria and madness of German actors with elements of pornography, the film itself, in terms of its form of performance and promoted meanings, is a real example of anti-art and anti-culture. The main characters constantly use alcohol and tobacco in the frame, behave vulgar and vulgar, there is a theme of perversion. The Russian people in the film practically do not speak, and look like a gloomy, silent mass, tortured to death by a totalitarian regime. Stalin and Hitler are mentioned only once, moreover, according to the context, they are put on the same level. This is complemented by the complete absence of cause-and-effect relationships in events, a general depressive background and ridiculous shooting angles: a significant part of the time the viewer sees the backs of the actors or pieces of bodies that did not fit entirely into the frame. There is not a single life-affirming scene or kind thought in the picture. But if ordinary viewers call the film “Dear Hans, Dear Peter” “enchanting nonsense” and “senseless nonsense”, then the entire Russian press sings its praises, defining cinema as a kind of art house that only the “elite” can understand. A similar situation is with the films "Good Boy" and "About Love", in which there is also a lot of vulgarity, alcohol and perversion, and love is replaced by animal instincts. Critics are overjoyed, but people don't want to go to the movies. All three films were watched by only 355 thousand people in cinemas.

Why are the main film awards awarded in Russia?

At the end of 2016, it can be concluded that the main Russian film awards are awarded for:

• promotion of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs
• perversion propaganda
• propaganda of vulgarity and betrayal
• promoting anti-family ideology
• discrediting the Russian people and substituting history

* All films were made with the support of the state * All films were highly appreciated in the pressIn the review, we examined only the winners of the main Russian film awards Nika, Golden Eagle and the Kinotavr film festival, since it is through them that general trends in cinema are formed. For objective reasons, the influential TEFI television award was ignored. It is awarded in many nominations, and there is no one main winner in it. Verification of all voiced judgments is available to everyone and will require a maximum of 6 hours of time. This is exactly how much it takes to download films, watch them and be convinced of the validity of the conclusions made. We urge you to disseminate this information in order to convey it to the general population, and to the leadership of the Ministry of Culture and to all other government departments, since the topics discussed here are directly related to the country's information security.