The hot stones of the Taliban

The first Russian-Talban film can be made in Afghanistan-according to the story of Arkady Gaidar

The film, as the pro -government information platforms say, is planned to be shot by military journalist Viktor Khomenko, who has been working in Afghanistan for eight years. Khomenko himself wrote the script. This is a modern reading of Gaidar’s parables about how the old man refused to change his difficult but honest fate for youth with a magic stone. And the movie hero will become a veteran of hot spots. He will remember his difficult life and struggle. The Gaidar text will romantically highlight this story. After all, the old man explains in the story to the boy Ivashka that he does not want to start life again, because he considers himself the happiest person in the world. All his wounds and injuries were received in the struggle for the country's bright future.

Lawyer Alexander Molokhov will take care of the legal support of the filming. He stated that the Taliban (the Taliban movement was included in the list of terrorist organizations, but on April 17, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation temporarily suspended the ban on the activities of the terrorist movement) hotly accepted the script.

Recently, Molokhov wanted to deprive the Russian lawyer himself - he defended the interests of the Taliban when the movement was still banned. After the lawyer presented the warrant in defense of the interests of the Taliban movement, the judge Oleg Nefedov asked him who the agreement was concluded to provide the services. The defender referred to a lawyer’s secret and left the answer. The lawyer was removed from the process, after which the judge’s statement to the Ministry of Justice followed.

According to sources,

Filming will be held with the support of local authorities, and the main topic of the picture is “the meaning of life, repentance and choice of the future path”.

Viktor Khomenko in the cinematic environment knows almost nothing, although he, judging by the certificate , has a rather big filmography and work with the speaking names: “Blue berets. Songs of our life ”,“ Paratrooper Stepochkin ”,“ General Son ”,“ Generation of the winners. Lev Yashin ”,“ Afghanistan in demand ”,“ Operation “Conclusion”, “Airborne Dad”, a cycle of video programs “Feat and Glory”. However, at Kinopoisk about a director with such a rich cinematography, nothing is said. In the animated environment, they also did not hear about him. And in the credits of the patriotic series “The Paratrooper Stepochkin” (about the heroic guy who performs a feat behind the feat even on the ground, at least in the water, even in the sky) I did not see his name.

The largest documentary work by Khomenko is “Afghanistan on demand”.

Here is what Viktor Vasilievich himself tells about his film: “ Twenty-five years later, the Afghan warriors are again on the glowing land. Returning from the Afghan war, they wanted to quickly forget everything that had happened. Many years have passed, and now they are ready to return to where they had to fight and lose friends of one-sex. Afghan veterans decided to travel to the places of hostilities and shot a documentary for those who have never heard about Afghanistan, and those who cannot forget it. ”

The picture was created in the period from 2012 to 2015 by a creative group of military veterans with the participation of Honored Artist of Russia Mikhail Zhigalov and a gentleman of the three orders of the Red Star Oleg Gontsov, who headed the project and organized expeditions to Central Asia. Zhigalov personally went with filmmakers to shoot in Afghanistan.

Apparently, the “hot stone” will continue this heroic story.

The network says that Khomenko is the editor -in -chief of the newspaper “Bulletin of Heroes” of the Russian Association of Heroes, in professional interests, often in Afghanistan and other hot spots. In his free time from business trips, he meets with the audience.

For example, at Altai State University. With students of the Vitebsk secondary school No. 45 named after V. Margelova. The school director Irina Loskova noted that thanks to such meetings, real patriots are brought up. Within the framework of the project “I am proud. Heroes ”a meeting of the director with the seminarians of the Barnaul Theological Seminary took place. We watched the film "Afghanistan. On demand ”, listened to stories about the exploits of heroes at different hot spots.

Meanwhile, the tourism industry of the Russian Federation is already in a hurry with the organization of tours to Afghanistan. The travel price starts from 223 thousand rubles without taking into account the flight, protection and local visa.

After the recognition of the Taliban power, Russia can establish direct air traffic with Afghanistan. According to Viktor Gorbachev, General Director of the Airport Civil Aviation Association, if the tourist flow in Kabul is established, Aeroflot will be able to provide regular flights. And there the movie will tighten.

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