#Пена_дней ...А началось всё с того, что я...

#Foam_days
... And it all began with the fact that yesterday I decided to rock, finally, "Angels of the Revolution" by Alexei Fedorchenko. And then you! - another srach in the comments. Torrents are such torrents. It was funny at first. Then insomnia came.
You see, a "director with a Ukrainian surname" is filming "historically unreliable pro-Western cinema", "denigrating the Russians" and singing praises of unworthy "nationalities". Like Latvians, Jews and Khanty.
I am ready to call such people "ideological tankers" - no offense to those serving in a certain type of troops. I sit "in the tank", I see the world through a narrow gap, I hear nothing (headset!), But I am always ready to hit the "enemy". An international phenomenon, by the way. How to deal with it? Watching a movie, of course. Read books. Talk to each other.
At the heart of the "Angels of the Revolution", if you have not seen them yet, is the story of the Kazym uprising, the Khanty revolt against Soviet power. Have you heard of this?
Hardly. Still would. It seems that of all domestic directors - large and modern - only Fedorchenko pays attention to the history and culture of small Finno-Ugric peoples, putting it into a rather bizarre film form: fairy tales, hoaxes.
Yes, he does not always follow hard facts - but this does not prevent us from saying that the movie is "based on real events." For some reason, fewer questions arise about the dramatic existence against the background of Napoleon and burning Moscow of a certain citizen Bezukhov. Although the essence is the same.
So it is here. There are mountain and meadow mari. There are Ostyaks and Voguls. There really was a Kazym riot, and everyone suffered in it - both agitators and Khanty. First, the "natives" banged the "strangers", then a symmetrical answer came. For a small nation, by the way, forty-nine killed is a big blow. Several families at once, roughly speaking. A whole layer.
Who was right? Everything, in part. Who is wrong? Equally - all too. The situation is practically hopeless, like most of the controversial moments in our history. That you can't change.
And it is all the more beautiful that, in its artistic arrangement, of all the "angels" and "natives" in the finale of the film, the most important and dear thing remains - "the first child of Soviet Ugra". Who survived to this day. Absolutely real.
Here it is, the author's approach to the problem. Quite optimistic, as in most of Fedorchenko's films. Even if they end with the death of the heroes.
How else? In my opinion, the author had to see too much in his time - enough to stop dividing the world into black and white, even more so - to paint everything in one color. The Sverdlovsk film studio in the nineties would not have survived without a "man with a Ukrainian surname" - and thanks for that, and carte blanche on its territory, in my opinion. And all the best.
As for the "pro-Western" nature - well, here the delight of the European festival jury is understandable. They have not yet seen such a Russia - as, unfortunately, many people living in Russia. For some, it is generally limited to the Volga in the east and the Crimea in the south.
In short, guys - look. There is definitely nothing to lose, and there will be something.