Leonid Parfenov shot a large-scale trilogy about Russian-speaking Jews

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This spring, the first episode of a new film by the famous journalist Leonid Parfenov, “Russian Jews,” will be released.

The trilogy tells about the influence of Russian-speaking Jews on Russia and the whole world: from the time of the partitions of Poland to the present day. "Our film is about everything related to the existence, life, influence of Russian Jews on the history of the planet and our country in particular. Big job", - in an interviewRadio Liberty”Said Sergey Nurmamed, who for many years has been the permanent personal director of Leonid Parfenov.

According to him, this film does not provide for a television format of its show: “This film was not ordered by television. It was commissioned by the Genesis Foundation and will probably be shown in several cinemas in Russia, Israel, London, and New York. Will this film be shown on television? I don’t rule it out, but I don’t confirm it either. But television is not a reference point in production,” Nurmamed explained.

According to the director, in order for Parfenov to set about creating some kind of story, it is necessary that she really hooked him. “Parfenov takes on only those stories that truly resonate with him. With this response, he calls me and makes an appointment at some restaurant. We meet, he presents the idea. We start discussing. There is a lot of magic in this discussion; at these moments Parfenov generally ceases to be the Parfenov we are used to seeing on TV. If someone wanted to make a film about the real Parfenov, they would have to somehow secretly film these meetings of ours, where we discuss the upcoming movie,” says Nurmamed.

He added that at such moments Parfenov ceases to follow his image, and the whole is absorbed by the idea of ​​the future film. “Lenya doesn’t choose her words at these meetings, doesn’t think about how to construct sentences, doesn’t sense the stage and doesn’t take care of her image. He very vividly describes the general idea of ​​the upcoming film in a chaotic order, listing events, people and phenomena, filling them with an abundance of romantic colors,” said the director.

Despite the fact that many of the films “Parfenov’s army” is not being made for television, the team members would like their works to be popular in Russia, but they do not believe that this is possible until the country’s power changes. “Putin, I think, cannot stand the upstart Parfenova. Consequently, the entire royal army cannot stand Parfenov. And we cannot even imagine how long all this “beauty” that is happening in the country will take. I don’t see any circumstances now for Parfenov to a) appear on air, b) appear on air multiple times, c) have any significance from the point of view of the audience,” noted Nurmamed, p.At the same time, he did not dare to assess when changes will take place in the country.

The first film will be shown in Russia, Israel, London and in New York.

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