The film, created in conjunction with the PLASTICINE studio, is not only a journey through Europe, but also a journey through time. The Brest Fortress, Warsaw, Majdanek, Berlin - all of them, 75 years later, keep in themselves the stories of people that every generation has to rediscover.
The main purpose of the trip is the Reichstag building in Berlin. Although the building of the state assembly itself was built back in 1894 and had little to do with the Hitler regime, in the spring of 1945 the leadership of the USSR defined the capture of the Reichstag as a symbol of victory. Therefore, thousands of Soviet soldiers sought to leave their autograph there.
The main character of the film, Leonid Ignatenko, using his own methodology was able to identify over 200 authors of inscriptions from 715 preserved in the Reichstag to this day and more than 100 inscriptions left only in photographs.
“All seven years that I worked on these inscriptions, of course, I dreamed of seeing them live,” admitted Leonid Alexandrovich. - The Reichstag is a curse and a triumph for the soldiers of the Soviet army. When the Reichstag was taken, one of the most amazing inscriptions left on the wall was "Senior Sergeant Sinev reached Berlin." That says it all. ”
- PLASTICINE / RT: Karin Felix and Leonid Ignatenko, Berlin, Germany
In the Reichstag, he will meet with a colleague - Karin Felix. Karin spent 25 years guided tours of the building where the Bundestag is now sitting, and found his second reconstruction. It was then, in the 1990s, under the drywall that sections of walls were found on which autographs of Soviet soldiers were preserved. The inscriptions shocked Karin. After many years of painstaking work, she created a unique catalog from which any of the surviving inscriptions can be found in the Reichstag.
She says: “For me, this has become the task of my life. I could not even imagine how extensive this work is. And then, there are such names that I had never heard before. And this is not only Moscow. Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, other remote areas of the USSR. Kazakh surnames, Ukrainian. Over time, I learned to understand them. Real people are behind the names. ”
- Sepe for PLASTICINE / RT
This is a film about how history can bring together very different people. Graffiti, graffiti weave the film from the Brest Fortress, known for its inscriptions of the first days of the war, to Berlin. You can also see young artists in the film: Konstantin Alekseev and Victoria Gosteva, the Polish artist Sepe - and the Berlin team of street art “1Up”, who travel with the project team, leaving behind them messages of peace.
“We cannot allow history to divide us again and again. We need to remember what happened. Remember that inside each person a beast lurks ... Sometimes one spark is enough, and now you have already switched to the dark side, ”said Sepe.
- “1Up” for PLASTICINE / RT, Teufelsberg, Germany
Karin Felix agrees with him: “The war cannot be repeated - nowhere on Earth, nowhere. "We do not care about our children so that they are killed in a few seconds."
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