The episode "Cinema" from the series "The Big Russian Lies" tells about the cinema as a platform for promoting the political interests of the Kremlin.

Modern Russian cinema from year to year reflects the public policy of the state and shapes public attitudes. The world of Russian films and TV series normalizes arbitrariness, romanticizes cruelty, and glorifies power structures and the apparatus of repression.

For years, the Russians dehumanized Ukrainians through cinema, forming an image of the enemy out of them. And with the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Russia continues to make propaganda films, continuing to deliver its big lie to the audience through cinema screens.

The experts of the episode were:
President of the Polish Film Academy Dariusz Jablonski;
film distributor, producer Denys Ivanov;
the founder of the YouTube channel "Squad of Cinematographers" Vitaliy Hordiyenko;
film reviewer Lena Chichenina;
journalist, TV producer, writer Peter Pomerantsev;
political technologist Serhii Haidai;
Maria Domanska, senior employee of the Russian Studies Department of the Center for Oriental Studies (Poland);
writer Andrii Kokotyukha;
Lyubov Tsybulska, an expert on countering hybrid threats.

Watch other episodes of the Big Russian Lies cycle:
The fiction that the world believed: How Russia REWRITES history in its favor | BIG RUSSIAN LIES #1 —    • Вигадка, у яку повірив світ: як Росія...  

Great Russian literature is FAKE!? How the Kremlin uses it for war | BIG RUSSIAN LIES #2

"The Big Russian Lies" is a series of films about a country living in an atmosphere of informational sanitation, in which the narratives of Russian propaganda are debunked.

For centuries, Russia has used history, literature, cinema, art, sports, and media as instruments of propaganda to advance political interests. It calls itself the heir of Kievan Rus and justifies claims to the lands of neighboring states.

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