And everyone sobs with impotence

Alexander Timofeevsky - About the verdict to the director Oleg Sentsov

The North Caucasus District Military Court on Tuesday, August 25, found the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov guilty of preparing terrorist attacks in Crimea. The director was sentenced to 20 years in a maximum security colony - despite the fact that one of the two witnesses of the prosecution refused to testify, saying that he had given them under pressure. Sentsov did not admit his guilt, but called the matter against him "political and falsified." For several months, public figures and directors spoke in support of Sentsov - in Russia, Ukraine and around the world. At the request of Medusa, journalist Alexander Timofeevsky sums up the results of this process.

Many years ago, I knew one Moscow Art Theater artist - not a great artist, but a smart, witty woman who, after the war, playing someone, I did not have a long string for the Blue Bird, but this is in the theater, and in her free time a romance with the Yugoslav ambassador just that year, when Stalin’s romance with Yugoslavia ended and the people of Palalamburil, Iosif, Tito. She came out with the artist with the homeland of asymmetry, for which she was arrested and began to sew her espionage in favor of Yugoslavia. The artist was amazed: “Alla! The fact that a man and a woman do it in private is now called espionage? " But the investigator was not joking, and the artist became funny: “Good. Write! I was a Yugoslav spy, an American spy, a Japanese spy, I wanted to kill Stalin, blow up the mausoleum, destroy a monument to Lenin! ” The investigator carefully recorded everything, and the artist received 20 years.

The director Sentsov and exactly for the same one received exactly the same amount today: for talking about the explosion of the monument to Lenin - genuine or imaginary. No one was either killed or wounded, no one was injured, there are no victims in the case, there are only words spoken or not uttered by Sentsov. For me, to blow up a terrible monument to the terrible Lenin - this is the good deed that the state, it was a matter, was engaged in itself. Now changed his mind. Happens. But is this a reason to give for conversations about the explosion of the monument for 20 years, especially for the conversations of the artists.

Julia Latynina here recently fell upon the campaign in defense of Sentsov, in which almost all the living filmmakers in Europe participated. Like, it is not worthless to build protection on the fact that the director could not call for a terrorist attack; This eunuch cannot rape, and agitation for a terrorist attack is available to everyone. I will not go into a discussion about the eunuch, although Latynina’s confidence here seems to me in vain, but the largest directors of Europe did not go to the wind. They knew what letters wrote about. There is nothing but conversations in the case, and to give them for 20 years an engineer or a firefighter - also to any gate, but directors and artists have other relations with the word - and with their own way, by the way, their escapades are role -playing. A creative person does not necessarily create at the workplace and not always on schedule. The statements of artists are completely insignificant, like that of my Yugoslav, American, Japanese spy. If the goal is to establish guilt, and not to plant at any cost, this is taken into account, they think about it, they remember this - of course, when there is no sweet task to pick up a neighboring fraternal country, for example, Yugoslavia.

Today is extremely abundant. In the morning they allowed the forbidden “Wikipedia”, but they banned various cleaning funds, released ono Vasiliev in the afternoon, then they gave 20 years Sentsov. In the family of Vasilyeva, the Adovas of the money appeared, in the case of Sentsov, I repeat, only conversations. Vasilieva served 109 days , against the background of 20 years, this, of course, is extreme, but in its own way exciting vacation.

Even before the verdict Sentsov, when one absurd burlesque reigned, I redid the classic epigram, inserting today's events:

Not a day today, but an extravaganza,

And everyone sobs with powerlessness:

Opened wiki, closed Fairy

And she went out at Udo Vasiliev.

A friend came in a commentary and reminded that Sentsov’s sentence will also be announced today, and the evening would cease to be languid.

And then. The evening has long ceased to be languid.

Alexander Timofeevsky

Moscow