К проблеме современного милитаризма. Как российская кинематография «освоила» чеченский конфликт

• Authors: Wojciech Kajtoch

Title variants

EN

About Modern Militarism. How Russian Cinematography “Familiarized” with Chechen Wars

• Languages of publication: RU

Abstracts

EN

In the article, the author analyses 19 feature movies and TV series produced from 1996 to 2010 by Russians and dedicated to Chechnya. The main observation is that during that time the approach to this particular subject was changing. The movies made in the years 1996-98, right after the Russian army had lost the socalled First Chechen War, propagated pacifistic ideas or suggested messianic explanation of those events. However, the movies made during the Second Chechen War (1999-2006) were dominated by praise for the Russian soldier as a defender of true Russian national and orthodox traditions. A picture of the enemy changed as well: no longer was it a Chechen, but an international Muslim terrorist. Finally, after 2006, Russian film industry started creating more profound, realistic movies, some of which focused on more universal moral problems.

Keywords

EN

Chechen War; Russian soldier; Russian film; Russian cinematography; Modern militarism

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego
• Journal: Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 4
• Pages: 365-391

Dates

published

2013

Contributors

author

Wojciech Kajtoch

• Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków

Identifiers

ISSN

2081-1128