Yakov Kogan: "There is no life -giving cross in modern domestic cinema"

“In the Holy Rus', festive, and will, and you will take it and look on these careless days, which is being delayed in these TVs. And there, it should be noted that everything was begun as the grandfathers-they twist the old and good comedies, where, in five minutes or five minutes, Zhenya Lukashin is not in a hurry, but confidently gets to the state of complete Novoseltsev, but Hippolytus is already almost indistinguishable from our bunch and is extremely apolitically reasoning, I swear honestly! ” - writes the artist and blogger on his Facebook page.

"And" Malboro ", as the main symbol of a successful life, somehow wanders from Verochka to Miloslavsky, and rings the January blizzard, and I brought money to you for the apartment for January, and you, the granny, apparently self-employed, did the tax on income from the rented living space?

Well and so on.

And now all these old are the good, on which they grew up and matured, who without this blacks, without vulgarity and damned sex, even they managed to drag something between the lines there.

Ivan Vasilievich yells the famous "This is what the Life -giving cross does" in the late seventies, when the magazines "Crocodile" expired with anti -religious propaganda and listens to Vysotsky, who was banned and cut out of the film.

Anyway - there are now the memoirs of cultural figures of that time, and they unanimously tell how the films gather dust on the shelves for years, did not go on rent, how the commission of responsible comrades recommended this not to be inserted, it is to remove it, and this is generally dissidentity and anti -Soviet! And the directors of those old-like films tell how many scenes had to be re-cut, how many were cut, and what a miracle, cunning, and sometimes completely-frank blackmail and deceit of phrases and scenes that became winged and loved ones, reached the viewer ...

But now this is not. They saw some domestic film so that they would say something in it that everything is right in the hall and whispered in reverent horror-yes, right, right from the screen?! And then discuss in the kitchens! And then the director is deprived of this title of "folk" and not allowed to remove? And in the newspaper "Pravda" on the editorial is a crushing article - shame on the Pachkuns and Extreme Extraordinants of our socialist homeland!

Or so that some fashionable director would sit and said that several fundamental scenes were cut out of the next “Christmas tree” or a film about the bridge at the request of the officials from the culture. Or what was the film at all? They just said - no, this is not shown in our country! I'm not talking about Stalin's funeral, I'm talking about domestic crafts.

There was some kind of fuss around the film about the king and the ballerin, but so personal and unhealthy that it was disgusted to even speak.

There is no life -giving cross in modern domestic cinema. Nothing of it is cut out. There is nothing to cut. Well, perhaps only the snowflakes cut and spread beautifully everywhere. The holidays ".