The Ministry of Consumer Svet proposed to re -re -take 30 classic Soviet films

The Ministry of Education of Russia made a proposal to shoot new, modern versions of 30 Soviet films included in the Golden Fund of domestic cinema. The department also presented a list of 15 books, which, in his opinion, should be filmed by Russian filmmakers.

Among the films that the Ministry of Consumamen offers to “modernize”, “Alexander Nevsky” and “Ivan the Terrible” directed by Sergey Eisenstein (1939 and 1944, respectively), “Mikhail Kalatozov (1957),“ The Fate of Man ”(1959) by Sergey Bondarchuk and his“ War and Peace ”(1967),“ Larisa’s fate ”fly. Shepipiko (1976, and the list also indicates the non -existent film "Sotnikov" - this is the name of Vasil Bykov, not the film), "Star of captivating happiness" by Vladimir Motyl (1975) and many others.

The Ministry of Consumer Service offers new films to create on books such as “Sevastopol Stories” by Leo Tolstoy, “Mary Petrovna” by Vladimir Veresaev, “The adventures of the beetle-nosor” Konstantin Paustovsky, “Girls from the Vasilievsky Island“ Yuri Yakovlev, “Matryonin Courtyard” Alexander Solzhenitsyn and others.

The statement of the Ministry sent to the Union of Cinematographers of Russia "states that new films should contribute to" preserving historical memory and the formation of patriotism ", primarily in children.

The Ministry of Culture commented that the proposal of the Ministry of Office was made "as part of the execution of the recommendations of the Federation Council to increase the production of adaptations of historical works" and is not compulsory. In the Union of Cinematographers itself - that for consideration of the proposal it would be possible to attract experts in order to "form a dramatic concept of adaptation of the original, contributing to the tasks of preserving historical memory and patriotic education," RBC reports .

For many cultural figures, the proposal to re -re -re -rejected rejection. People's Artist of the RSFSR Sergey Nikonenko, the main role performer in the film "Tomorrow was a war", also included in the list of the Ministry of Education, announced the idea of shooting remakes harmful and demanded the dismissal of the Minister of Education. “The copies and reproductions have never been better than the original. In these intentions of the“ enlighteners ”I suspect the tendency of wrecking. Remove yours, let it be better, but do not touch the classics,” he said.

The film director Vladimir Bortko agreed with him.

According to TASS, the Ministry of Consumer Svet "denied information about his proposal to remove remakes." However, on the website of the Union of Cinematographers, the letter of the department was posted with the official outgoing number, AZ-1397/06 of June 28 this year.

The Ministry of Office states that he has transmitted a "list of masterpieces of domestic cinema, which is important to educate the young generation", and that "the proposal contains the idea of a possible new film adaptation of the works of the classics, but so far the list is intended for discussion with the expert community."