International critics were reluctant to label the latest film Sergey Loznica (Baránavichi, Belarus; 1964), Tax dosas a thriller politician, but the Ukrainian director prefers to refer to his first fiction from the same year moral tragedy.
About the protagonist e.g a committed and compromising young Bolshevikthe legacy of the first post-revolutionary generation, raised in idealism. After being blinded in the state, he goes to deal bruce with a corrupt system that punishes those who torment his shame with torture and arrest.
Chronicler of horrors of the USSR in documents as El Juicio (2018) or State funeral (2019) and tensions between Ukrainians and conflicts in other sectors such as Maidan (2014) and fiction Donbass (2018), the director presents a historical fiction set in Stalinist Russia in 1937 that adapts the novel of the same name by the Soviet scientist and writer Georgi Demidovformer political prisoner of the Gulag for 18 years.
Please. Are there any similarities between the Stalin era and geopolitical current events?
Response. German National Socialism and Italian Fascism developed within three and four years, respectively, as did Stalinism. We are talking about regimes that exist in some cases, but now we are encountering totalitarian governments in Russia and other places around the world. This trick is present where there is a bureaucratic machinery. Imagine Kafka going through airport security today…
P. He works with archival materials in his documents. Was that a lesson to be applied here?
R. En Tax dos I wanted to show the other side of the oppressive machinery that was seen there El Juicio (2018). Pen, tras rodar, me di cuenta de que It was not necessary to include the archives because the structure we created was self-sustaining.
P. Rodaje took place in a prison in Riga, which took place in 2008. How did its decoration affect it?
R. It is a prison built in 1905, during the Tsar’s time. Now it is a rolling pavilion, which includes Kirill Serebrennikov Limonov (2024). It also serves as a training ground for special tours and as a museum for school field trips.
P. Why did I choose a static camera?
R. We chose a relationship of aspects that conveys an existential and ecstatic atmosphere when depicting the architecture of the prison. Next, we decide to use the fija camera and remove all bright colors from the palette: amarillo, purple and green. Cinematographer Oleg Mutu designed a special filter to create a depressing space where the viewer would be completely immersed. I am looking for flamenco painting.
Alexander Kuznetsov and Anatoli Bely in the film Dos fiscals
P. What did Lenin and Stalin mean to you when you were young and Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union?
R. When I was a child, Stalin was not in the pictures that haunted me. The only place it did was in Abkhazia, an autonomous republic in Soviet Georgia, where bus drivers had their backs strapped to the windshield. It has a mysterious element to it. in exchange Lenin was like furniture. It was in every part. The tablet packaging featured a chocolate factory called October, but the taste didn’t improve. [risas].
P. Why were they idealized in the old Soviet republics?
R. Because Lenin’s corpse is preserved in Moscow and his memory still lives in Russia. Astronomy books were published in the Soviet Union and sometimes, at some point, they were destroyed or turned into reality. However, recently they began to print their writings in Russia. Included is a new edition of his complete works in bookstores in Germany. But where is it? He can hardly be considered a hero of this time. Stalin, on the other hand, was a terrorist gangster.
P. Do you think that Putinism is a logical consequence of Stalinism?
R. Yes, above all. Hey in Russia they use the same methods Stalin invented and developed. Currently, there is no need to kill thousands of people because they have other equipment: stop suggesting the possibility of this massive terror. Since the last century, the system has reformed human nature through a type of negative selection. They destroyed my most talented, intelligent and active community members.
P. What are the consequences of this crib?
R. In contemporary Russia, there are criminals and convicted murderers with long sentences who turn into national idols. They go to war, return to the front with medals, and then commit crimes, only to be pardoned by their war heroes. It is not possible to present a similar moral situation after 100 years. It was unimaginable even after 30. The Soviet system was criminal, but it was aware of its crimes and tried to hide them, while today’s Russia is proud of its crimes. Cases pareken jactarse.
Anatoli Bely in ‘Dos fiscals’
P. How have you noticed this shame in the past?
R. For example, Putin first said that he did not know what troops were in Crimea, but two years later he admitted: “Yes, we were ours, but it was our military cunning.” This is how I tell you changed the level of morality.
P. What prediction can pass with Russia in the next five years?
R. If there is enough support for part of Europe and the rest of the world, it will grow. The costs of participating in the world economy are small, but the noise this country makes and the problems it creates are immense. For four years we talked about war and nobody could do anything. This means they have mechanisms that others can take advantage of.
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