The Ukrainian Embassy in France appealed to power in connection with the movie "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" by Sergei Paradzhanov at the Russian Cinema Festival in Paris. Diplomats consider this event the appropriation of Ukrainian cultural heritage.
The film was included in the event program, which was dedicated to the century since the birth of the famous Armenian director.
The film, which in the French version was called "Les Chevaux de Feu), created in the USSR at the Dovzhenko Film Studio in Kiev, Ukraine.
Although Paradzhanova is admitted as an Armenian director, he is associated with Georgia and Moscow, his film is seen as an attempt to revive the Ukrainian cultural tradition. However, on the main page of the festival clearly states: "Open the best Russian cinema yesterday and today."
Embassy representatives believe that even in these difficult times, it is necessary to continue protecting and promoting Russian culture, but they say that this particular case is a cultural approaches, and ask the French authorities to deal with the incident.
This festival, which is held, was dedicated to the memory of the deceased Russian politician Alexei Navalny this year. The shows took place in Paris from March 7 to March 12 and then in tavern from March 12 to March 17. The organizer is the Association "Other Russia". The Embassy of Ukraine appealed to the Ministry of Culture and other power structures in France on this occasion.
The movie "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors", filmed by director Sergey Paradzhanov on the story of the Ukrainian writer Mikhail Kotsyubynsky, was published in 1964 at the Alexander Dovzhenko Kiev Film Studio. Most of the film scenes were shot in the Carpathians, in the villages of Kryvorivnya and Verkhovyna.
Almost 60 years from their exit, film critics have recognized him as the best Ukrainian movie in cinema history. The Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors have been recognized at numerous international festivals and have become an important symbol of the dissident movement and the struggle of Ukrainians with the Soviet regime, after protests against the arrests of Ukrainian intellectuals at the film premiere.
The film tells the romantic history of Ivan and Marichka - Hutsul Romeo and Juliet, which showed many qualities inherent in Sergei Paradzhanov's cinema: metaphorical, deep understanding of ethnographic and symbolism, as well as the ability to convey feelings of thin strokes.
The film was published in Ukrainian without a dub in Russian, which was almost unknown at that time. This immediately made Paradzhanov as a well -known director, but his imprisonment was over the next movie "Kiev Frescoes", although the shooting was already lasted. He was considered a nationalist because he made his dissident and expressed his dissatisfaction with the cultural policy of the Soviet Union.
