Finally, an Australian trailer (English subs) for Donbass movie in contention for an Oscar nod (doubt that it's going to pass preliminary elimination, though).
Here is the "review" of the movie by the Russian Embassy in Australia de facto asking for the movie boycott.
Word for word from is Facebook page:
Comment by the
Embassy of Russia in Australia regarding screening of “Donbass” movie in Australia
"From October 18 the “Donbass” film by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa will be screened in
#Sydney,
#Melbourne and
#Canberra. This film has already gained some admirable reviews in Australian press in advance.
Let’s leave artistic merits of this movie for critics to make their judgment and talk like ordinary viewers, unbiased from political paradigms. From this point of view the Sergei
#Loznitsa’s trashy production causes only disgust due to its blatantly and brazenly racist and russophobic content in the worst Nazi traditions. It is hard to imagine, what is going in the mind of a person, who depicts people of the
#Donetsk and
#Lugansk Republics as ugly, rude, aggressive and mentally deficient characters with such a great relish. Ukrainian Minister of culture Yevhen Nyschuk once said, that Donbass citizens are “genetically handicapped”. It is worth recalling, who used the term “subhuman” (“untermensch”) for the first time and what price the humankind had to pay for it.
Today
#Ukraine is experiencing a difficult period, when people from different parts of the country are looking at each other through gun sights. There is no space for mockery and humiliation in hundreds and thousands of human tragedies. It is obvious that in portraying these people as a criminal bunch of bandits, thieves and alcoholics, who are bogged down in robberies and corruption, the author tries to justify constant
bombings and shellings of Donbass, which cause suffering of civilian population, including children. It is an appalling, nakedly
#fascist morality.
Russia was the initiator of the
#MinskAgreements, which serve as a legal framework for the peace settlement process. Due to enormous diplomatic efforts and daily tedious work the situation in the conflict zone remains relatively calm. At the same time, such figures as Sergei Loznitsa do nothing but try to add fuel into the fire of war.
It is immoral to screen this biased and politicized film, aimed at igniting inter-ethnic hatred at a time when humanitarian disasters which cause suffering of real people are rampant there. It is dishonourable to speculate with the national tragedy, which has already taken more than ten thousand of civilian lives. And it is particularly strange that this kind of film is being praised to the skies in Australia – the country, that proclaims the rule of
#multiculturalvalues and inter-ethnic tolerance".
