Necessary provocation. "Russian Jews" Parfenova as the annals of Russian history

Russian Jews. The film is third. After 1948. Photo: Filmpro.ru

Last week, the premiere of the third and final film from the Leonid Parfenov cycle “Russian Jews” took place. The first part was devoted to the position of Jews in tsarist Russia. The second is the most dramatic moments of Russian history: revolution, great terror and the Great Patriotic War. The new film covers the post -war period, the era of Khrushchev and Brezhnev and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Mikhail Fishman tells why the trilogy of Jews turns into a film about Russian history as a whole and why, when viewing it, it is not possible to avoid parallels with modernity.

Space for analogies

Here Parfenov in the Karakulev pies is walking along Pushkinskaya Square - there in 1965 a glasnost rally was held, the first anti -Soviet demonstration, stretching for three minutes, during which the participants recognized each other by the captured caps. The precisely the same problem of identification was solved by protesters during the walks of the boulevards in 2012 after the defeat of the rally on Bolotnaya, and on June 12, when Navalny called on supporters to move to Tverskaya.

Here Parfenov tells, standing on the same Pushkinskaya as dissidents after that memorable dispersal then gathered on the square annually - these are exactly rallies on December 31 in defense of meetings from the recent past. And here is Lyudmila Alekseeva herself, a faithful participant in these rallies-then, in the late 60s, she personally printed a “chronicle of current events” on a typewriter, and Parfyonov recalls how many copies the carriage was maintained. And the poster “For your and our freedom”, with which Parfenov steps along Red Square, recalling the demonstration on August 25, 1968? Didn’t Boris Nemtsov quote him, speaking on the Kiev Maidan in December 2004? Yes, and this paving stones itself - in such a context - reminds of Pavlensky and Pussy Riot, who have already emigrated (completely or almost), like the heroes of the Parfenov film.

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