La Repubblica: "Paper soldiers" Alexis Herman, Jr. brings together Russians and Georgians

Directed by "Paper Soldier" - Aleksey German Jr, Russian from Moscow, singer primary role - Merab Ninidze, Georgians from Tbilisi. The film - history doctor, who in 1961 participated in the preparation of future astronauts, risk their lives to approve any price superiority of the Soviet Union, writes about Russian painting, presented at the Venice festival La Repubblica.

"The film is proof that there are areas in which peaceful coexistence - a reality - spoke German, who only 32 years. - I was not yet a director, I'm studying, directors & # 8211, a Fellini, Bergman, Kurosawa. "

The young creator of the tape was able to restore an atmosphere of hope-generation 60 - , "when, after Stalinism seemed that lacks only a few steps before the great achievements: space and welfare, but also an end to suspicion and fear, freedom to think and live. Then came in 1968 , Tanks in Prague, and it became clear that steps will turn into years, many years "- adds director (full text on the site InoPressa.ru).

The actor and director alike react to the idea of the Cold War: "The pain and shame." "I do not know who is right, who is to blame, but I think any sane person, neither in Russia nor in Georgia, does not want the return of the Cold War. Psycho can only dream of that target missiles at each other" , Said German.

"Paper Soldier" filmed in Kazakhstan, on the ruins of what once was Stalin's camp. "We were all day in the mud, under the same conditions, which in those years worked in construction ", - says the director, who in his film, filled with literary references to Chekhov and Lermontov, tells about the meeting, seasoned in Fellini spirit, the hero with his parents, dead at the camp.

"He finds them in the silence of heaven, because I thought of her parents, on their remarkable idealism. Idealizma no longer, it lost paradise. Today's Russia - a country can be seen only people who filled supermarkets, buying cars, they do not think about anything else. And the terrible events taking place today, only less than expectations, I no longer believe in the opportunity to live in a country free of borders "- says the director.