Dmitriev’s daughter goes to Sandarmokh

On August 4–5, the annual days of memory of the victims of Stalinist repressions took place in Karelia. Mourning events are held in the tract of Sandarmokh, where in 1937-1938 9,500 people were shot. This place was discovered by a local historian and local historian Yuri Dmitriev, who devoted his life to the search for mass burials of the Great Terror era. Now he is in a pre -trial detention center on charges of violent acts of a sexual nature in relation to the adopted daughter, which he had been raising from three years old. Dmitriev denies guilt, human rights activists call the matter political persecution. Dmitriev was already justified by the court , but the case was recently sent for a review.

His native daughter, 33-year-old Ekaterina Klodt, is the only one who can visit his father in closed institutions. Previously, she was far from politics and human rights activities, but after the arrest of her father, her life changed. Now Catherine has become a link between Dmitriev and a huge group of his support - thousands of people have embarked on the Karelian historian. Appeals in support of Dmitriev were recorded by Boris Grebenshchikov, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Svetlana Aleksievich, Dmitry Bykov and many others.

Julia Vishnevets spent several days with Ekaterina Klodt and her son, going to Petersburg and Sandarmokh with them.

The film uses drawings and animation of the 14-year-old Dani Klodt, son of Catherine and grandson of Yuri Dmitriev, who made an animated film under the guidance of students of the Moscow film school.

Georgy Ermolenko, Mikhail Khursevich, Lina Shiryaeva took part in the preparation of the film.