Give your head!

Actually, the plot is directly Bulgakovsky.

And suddenly at the table, the word fluttered: "Berlioz !!" ... "What, what, what? !!" - "Berliosis !!!". And we went to jump up, went to jump up ... Someone fussed, shouted that it was right right away, without leaving the place, to make some kind of collective telegram and send it immediately ... But what telegram, we will ask, and where? And why send it? In fact, where?

In fact - where? I already ask myself, as if addressing individual viewers who read the famous romance and watched a famous film. And also to the director Vladimir Bortko, who shot this film ten years ago and yesterday found out that he was chased by the movie at the next demonstration. In particular, the censors on the TV channel "Russia 1" literally cut off the head of the writer Berlioza, throwing the whole scene from the series with their heads.

So we went to jump up with the director, requiring satispulation and perplexing: where did the head go? What feelings and what believers are offended this time? Yes, and here's another important question: where do we and director Bortko send a telegram of protest?

Perhaps a few addresses.

As for the simple public, she, without waiting for any letters and telegrams, was answered by the press service of the VGTRK. In the sense, she replied that "the series is shown in the daytime" and this "imposes certain restrictions on the television company related, inter alia, with the ban on the scenes of violence." And although an accident with the participation of the tram and the chairman of the board is hardly correct to reckon the scenes of violence, the television authorities, of course, know better. The authorities are not an enemy, and if the scene of the death of Berlioz is removed from the “master”, and the most important Russian words are thrown out of the film “Strafat”, then this should be explained by the action of the circumstances of the insurmountable. In particular, the laws adopted by the Russian parliament, which inexorably punish for the words and “scenes of violence”, no matter what it means.

In the discussion and adoption of these laws, the State Duma deputy from the Communist Party, the deputy chairman of the Committee on Culture Vladimir Bortko took an active part. The law enforcement of an obscene battle, the deputy approved the lawmaking . Against the "restriction of the scenes of violence", as if anticipating misfortune, rebelled , but the law still passed. And here, in this information report from the life of our lower house, you should look for the answer to the question where to write a complaint to the director Bortko. There, in the Okhotny series, where he sits with his colleagues, voting, as a rule, for different legal norms, one is worse than the other.

True, Vladimir Vladimirovich himself is thinking about judicial persecution, although he hesitates: how will he attract "people with whom he have been friends for more than 15 years?" At the same time, he loudly scolds some "creacs", which not only indicates an impeccable political instinct of the director, but also gives rise to various additional issues. These are his fenzers, such as Dobroduev and others, who have committed "complete lawlessness", as he himself says - are they really from those troubles who went to Bolotnaya? Or Bortko, a communist with experience, reports to his friends in his hearts? Directly a session of magic, which, however, is quite easy to expose.

The fact is that the theme of "artist and power" in our amazing times gains a completely new dimension. I mean those artists who, with all their souls for power or, in extreme cases, imitating opposition, enter the Party of Schwonders and grab out of the same feeding trough as Pzhiv. All of them for Putin, for Crimea and for spirituality, but you can’t drink skills and you won’t eradicate professional skills, no matter how much a spit, and Mikhalkov and Bondarchuk and even Shakhnazarov ask the prime minister to merge and allow the mat in artistic works, without which the true image of Russian-speaking heroes. And the deputy Bortko, who was closed with the film, generally recalls the constitution, where a ban on censorship is directly recorded. Freedom of speech requires, like Bulgakov in a letter to Stalin, and words, unlike the classic, do not choose. Wakes up and indignant.

Yes, you see, a wave of grief shot up at a terrible news of Mikhail Alexandrovich . And on the other hand, artists, especially those pronounced, are like children. They feel and even shout from pain when rude censors in broad daylight are cut with their scissors in the living, and ask such an side that he thinks about the Tangayzer, about the crucified Gagarin or about Artem Loskutov , who was not put for ten days - no answer at best will follow. It will also begin to teach them how the late Berlioz of the unfortunate poet: what can be written, drawn and put, and what rudely contradicts the historical truth and the current moment. It will also approve, perhaps, all these repressions and prohibitions, so it’s better not to ask.

It is better to be content with what is, observing this unexpected scandal, amazing and fully supporting the director in his sudden battle with Dobroduevsky censorship. Noting with satisfaction that the Putin era has not yet turned into a “scoop” and an offended artist can afford to scold the bosses aloud not in the kitchen, but on the live air of a popular radio station. Even "Creaches" can call them, and there will be nothing to him for it. Well, they’ll be at a thumb somehow, and they have already attacked, wrapping in fog naked Margarita, but not by evil, but because the laws are like that. You can not show the naked Margarita during the day. In general, such life, and nothing can be done with it, and the other is not expected to be expected, and the next one, they say, will not be better. In short, he died, and he does not need any telegram. It's over, let's not load the telegraph anymore .