A story from the people. Stalin was bad, the fact that at the moment, when there was a time of the Great Patriotic War, he bribed people, well, our Russian soldiers, he gave the fascists how, well, he sold our Russian soldiers, and that during the Great Patriotic War, not our Russian soldiers won this victory, but that he thought that everything would work out, the fascists won this victory.
Vladimir (he went to the city of Teplooozersk from work at gas stations).
According to the former editor-in-chief of the magazine “Art of Cinema” Daniil Borisovich Dondurey, the main thing in the modern world is not in the production of oil or dollars, but in the creation of mass ideas about what is happening. He who makes sense governs society.
In this context, Andrei Stvolinsky’s documentary 10,000 Kilometers, created in 2008, is of unique significance. The filmmakers traveled across the Russian Federation (almost 17 years after the Soviet Union disappeared) from Vladivostok to Moscow and recorded several stories from fellow passengers about Soviet history. Basically, fellow travelers-narrators turned out to be young people whose life, if it happened in Soviet times, then in the very early childhood.
For those who know Soviet history well, the stories of young boys and girls in most cases will cause sadness, regret or smiles (or even mild laughter), but the authors in no way aim at criticizing or even condemning the low level of historical knowledge of fellow travelers. We will not hear any comments during the film. Just direct speech. From those who know the history of Soviet times and those who do not. And at the same time, for some reason and without comments, the authors of the film feel respect for their fellow storytellers.
And much more in the narrative fabric of the film means landscapes outside the window. Sometimes they talk about the Soviet past more eloquently than any words. For almost 17 years of post-Soviet history, there are still many traces of that country, and in general, in the vast expanses of modern democratic Russia, little has changed in the life and life of the population.
What Russian contemporaries said ten years ago about a country that has remained in the past is of great importance for understanding the main questions of Russian history today: Who are we? Where are we from? Where are we going?
A unique slice of mass representations in 2008 about what is happening in 1917-1991 gave us the creators of the film “10,000 kilometers”. The film, which has, most likely, not artistic value, but historical, semantic. It would be interesting to see a sequel to this film made today, ten years later.
Gorbachev was president of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union included fifteen republics, and all these fifteen republics left, including Russia. There's no country left. There is a president of the Soviet Union, but there is no Soviet Union.
Batyr (he went from Ufa University to the village).
My opinion is good.
7 out of 10