forms of time. time ah, the phenomenon a dimension. if we know we won't live forever. an illusion. about time presenting future's past starts april 14th on d. w. ah, i don't want to leave my concert. i don't want to leaving bull on from germany. we have our own home with but on some we try to give our best every day. no one knows what tomorrow will bring. yeah, we have to build bridges where others put up walls. the

war in ukraine has been going on for more than a month. artists and creatives are also affected. some are resisting on the grounds . others have escaped to bro, would onst 21 with a true life story about displacement and life in the wake of war. but fust, how feature films bring war propaganda to a mass audience or i believe what of on the ag did me know from the start is the war in ukraine has been a war of images, images of ukrainian president vladimir soleski as a defiant, every man graving russian attacks or on social media skilfully using images of courageous civilians to inspire resistance at home and around the world was re make

a little bit on russian state media. we have images of president vladimir putin raging about. suppose it ukrainian drug addicts and neo nazis. alongside images of alleged ukrainian attacks on civilians. we're definitely seeing now absolute propaganda coming from russia. with this new dimension of fake news that are disguised ass, you know, on us to use services, you know, telling citizens about what is going on. i mean, what fake news do is they rely on some sensationalism and, and emotions. so it's looks like serious news to people who don't know better. all these images on both sides are deliberate. how we see the war. any war is framed by our image of the enemy. and our image of the enemy is framed by what we've been trained to see to the soft propaganda of film fiction

. it's a propaganda tradition that extends back through cinema history. sergey eisenstein knew what the enemy looked like. in his classic silent film, battleship potemkin, he depicts troops of evil cause acts like an impersonal killing machine. the scene justifies a later act of violence in the film. when the heroic rebels fire on the surface military i would say there's baseline fundamental strategies for depicting enemies. they're usually shot from below. they're usually seen as menacing. they're usually depicted as personifications of death or abstractions, or perhaps personified personified vermin, or other animals that are easily demonized and usually kill that image of the

enemy hasn't changed much in a century of cinema work. in lone survivor, the impersonal army of killers. are taliban? not cause ex, while the film makes no grand statements to justify the war and afghans stand like so many war films. many made with the help of the american military and the images of a monstrous, overwhelming enemy, underscore foreign policy objective. it's about justifying certain kinds of foreign policy positions. it's about sewing weapons and making sure that the american public understands that large expenditures are necessary in order to conduct these foreign policy operations. for decades, americas movie enemy number one was russia. the russians are the craze killers in rambo 3

and in top gun, where just the symbol of rushes. red star means the threat of death from above. cooper, i'm going to go ahead to head with them. russia has always been a go to enemy, you know, it was the case in the cold war to been the case for the last 20 years. they're an easy enemy to put on the screen and they serve us interests as an enemy pretty well . go free. the cold war, so american cinema, at its most jingle with dick in 1984 hit red dawn. the soviets invade america. right? the russians are shown as heartless, gothic killers. over

the years in 2012, hollywood did a remake in place of the russians. the batteries this time were supposed to be chinese. but a switch in us foreign policy to pro china forced a last minute change in the script. there wipers out, including us central command. this film was changed so that china was not the enemy anymore. but north korea was as ridiculous as that sounds that north korea would stage a land invasion the united states. this is the red dawn of 2012 in work l. my politics usually get the final cut. since putting came to power, there been a deluge of russian films on world war 2, called the great patriotic war in russia. in 2018 epic t. 34 brave russian soldiers battle the evil nazis trying to destroy them. pennies

propaganda towards ukraine draws directly on the cinematic images of the enemy. what we're seeing today, if we think maybe just specifically about your crime is a very visual, fastest mouth, see type of propaganda where there's absolutely no nuance in sort of depicting the enemy and very clear visual language. so there is a direct line and the way that these nazi enemy images are being revoked in today's russia. but in the middle of an actual war framing, the other side in terms made up movie batteries, may make it harder to find real world peace. i think after the russian invasion of ukraine, we're going to see the floodgates open. i think they are going to be an even easier enemy. and i think this is unfortunate in

a certain sense because that is going to play into a global relationship. that is going to make diplomacy harder when diplomacy is needed. more than ever heard from feature films to real life stories, a young man fleeing the syrian war finds refuge in ukraine. his tale is told by a ukrainian filmmaker now faced with ra herself, the don bas region in easton ukraine, the for the russian invasion. it's the setting of the documentary, this rain will never stop a film about the war and on bass, which began in 2014 and continues to this day. a documentary that's already become a historical document in its own right. it was directed by alina go, nova, we spoke with her on march 7th in ukraine's besieged capital chief. i feel to my

last bill and the read. now i think i'm like another person, person who films that's moving because yes, everything changed. and that's whoa sir, doesn't exist in any more in this world, russian tanks stand outside the city. alina cordova, has been taking part in the volunteer service. there. she can't say precisely where the 8 center is located. for security reasons, i'm into my car knee on the are there are by. i couldn't say this. we are trying to distribute and coordinate to 8 homie into an 8. ah, for if it's really on an order for that also for an army. ah, we are trying to organize ourselves in some way because duration is very tough. in 2018, she filmed at a check point between ukrainian and separatist controlled areas in the east of the

country. even then tensions were rising along the dividing line. that's where she met under the sulaiman who worked for the red cross seeing the war in his homeland syria, he sought refuge in his mother's homeland easton ukraine and found himself in another world. sir. she taught them florence tomorrow. his stomach was just done with customer as chris with mister with him would miss wright this feel was created by itself in some way. so it us,

sir. we were full in reality and we realized during the human it's something bigger . in the documentary, his story becomes a universal one, turning the film into a meditation on the nature of war itself. ukraine's military on parade a fascinating and disconcerting sight. but today the filmmaker says this scene has taken on a new meaning before that, so ah, a lot of people, a bro, b. they said that it's like a militarization or something. great. that's but right now we could see that actually right now this people that protects him ourselves from based crazy army. the homelands of both andre salinas parents are caught up in wools. his father stays in contact with other family members now scattered around the world. his

parents chose to stay in ukraine in 2014, despite the conflict. and so did he to stay or to flee a dilemma in which every answer speaks of loss. i on with wanted andry slaymen state back then ask alina gold over today. and the answers clear, i think that's it keeps following the same things as i am, because i don't want to leave my conscience. i don't want to leave in bull on the door money. i would, i would really love this country. so i really love people. but we have our own home, we have our own concert. i don't want to leave. so the stress right now ukrainian

righteous. it's not a choice andree. i think he decided to say because here he knows what to do. he knows where to work. he knows he has grants. when we spoke with the filmmaker in early march, andries philemon was okay. he wasn't on bass, but in another city. his messages were brief. back then when she was filming, she accompanied him when he visited his uncle in an iraqi refugee camp. she wanted to show horse physical and psychological effects and how war and peace alternate. i just want to tell that it's like a circle and we're like a go in there on the circle every time in our history. oh, strong, the very, very beginning from back time. so we are starting this war and we couldn't starboard henry and see me and maybe that see something inside ourselves. why start rules?

when we long for peace, where does the urge to fight come from? for a country or for those we love her film asks these questions once that now calls go over sleepless nights. but she says no is not the time to go looking for on. since we disagree with my friends, we decided to sell it to larry and, and the whole bed to we were a little better. so it's really my whole big we will, ah, go further forward. and we will try to doubt you by our territories. read now. ah, so it's our big dream. thank you so much. every think. okay, bye bye. good for now. hope and reality seem very far apart. the destruction continues, buildings plans for the future lives and long cultivated cultural relationships are also being disrupted, which is also affecting major museums in berlin or the

artist museum in berlin. the alternate to not gallery signs of solidarity with ukraine are everywhere, but collaboration and dialogue with museums in russia have been put on hope since hooton's attack on ukraine. deck with culture as no chance and war war destroys everything. this one was it was a full strand this week valuables. you have to remember that even in times where there may have been my political tensions, culture and science have always been universally seen as opening the door to dialogue and an instrument for dialogue in that suddenly changed to fix it. peter for ended. yes, video shoot and wireless, it's really disturbing because it's interrupted, longstanding relationships also. and of course, we're also worried about our partners as the people who work in these institutions abiding the prussian cultural heritage foundation which administers cultural institutions in a near berlin. has built strong ties to russia,

large parts of its collections. or even there, they were taken to the soviet union after world war 2. we were shifting ones here off the hair almost 80 years after the end of the war on we're still dealing with its aftermath and complex, trying to reassemble some collections to leak on, to reconstruct knowledge. and now another war started at that can also, in this war, is again targeting people along with their cultural heritage. it is in this kind of destruction is happening again. these are all fun such true. many exhibits such as the treasure of abs. valdez discovered new berlin in 1913 and dating back to the bronze age, only exist as copies in berlin. the originals are in the pushkin museum in moscow. more than 10000 artifacts were taken to the soviet unionist war spoils by the red army and are still stored there many in warehouses. but russian and german researchers developed a vibrant network of collaboration and dialogue or the ending of this school as researchers is to learn as much as we can about these artifacts and to make that

knowledge available. and it isn't often his cuz he wants to bring in europe without borders, was the name of a successful collaborative project between russia and germany. but the exhibition was only ever allowed to be shown inside russia. it started in 2007 with the major exhibition in moscow focusing on treasures of the merovingian dynasty. the bronze age followed in 2013, at the opening in saint petersburg, german chancellor, and get a medical met vladimir putin and delivered a provocative speech. he hasn't them, i know it is our opinion that these exhibits should return to germany, touched on consolation. the collaboration went smoothly, but the return of artifacts remained a sticking point. recently, the iron age exhibition featured at the hermitage in saint petersburg and the state historical museum in moscow. due to the pandemic artifact from berlin were sent to russia, but none of the researchers could go a virtual tour and a glossy catalogue documented the exhibition. will this new war bring

with it a new ice age and cultural relations between germany and russia? german cultural commissioner, claudia wrote, hopes that won't be the case, silva, zip. we need more breaches. yep. we have build breeches where others are building rolls small on others does ha, so i'll pose a cultural by cotton and quote, tool boy caught via zit toys. did we were bound by a shared love for these artifacts, forbidden movies that carried us through even in difficult times on off. and i hope we will be able to pick up where we left off of the la mancha from con, current exhibition projects are already being affected by the war. in the james seaman gallery and in the noise museum, the special exhibition shamans worlds will open in may without the originally planned russian contributions. the exhibition will also not travel to the pushkin museum in moscow as had been planned. it would have been a sensation for the 1st time since world war 2, the primes, treasure and shamans, other fines from troy would have been united there. the war has also made itself

felt in the berlin state library. according to the new general director, ocoee monta, the large eastern europe section no longer receive new publications from ukraine or russia. the german russian library dialogue has also been put on hold alice on hold or but everything is on homeless. but with a great hope that we can start it up again to send off the sticker because these are important projects that unite people ease. when a good mind they foster the common understanding that wars and conflicts like the one we are currently experiencing. so always under years of progress, you can just you and see mary, don't yahoo? so luke valve, in times like now looking at ukrainian and russian children's books in the library collection, helps the books i can born to says are a testament to the 2 countries shared longing for peace. pipes for peace

in the port city of odessa, people are preparing for the west, many women and children of fleeing abroad. some musicians from odessa also made it out of the country and, and now performing on age, within legends ah, b. bold sound scapes. monumental as though you could force back an entire russian army with an orchestra. film, composer, hunt simmer, specializes in dramatic musical backdrops in the soundtrack of heroes. he booked the odessa opera orchestra for his european 2 or more than 2 years ago. but then the pandemic interfered and now the ukrainian musicians homeland is being ravaged by war. only some members of the orchestra were able to flee

the hob, we really only managed to get 10 people from the orchestra out at the end of the day. and those 10 people are here, aren't that, would you please stand up blue, the turn musicians or no on a european tour with handsomer bringing the trauma, their escape along with them. very vaunted dank, remembers being woken by her mother. yeah, none of the list. i said, pack your things, get ready to move into the seller. well, that's how that morning started the what we didn't understand anything at the time each or what it was terrible because you don't understand it because you've never been in a situation like it before. this feeling still clings to me for yeah,

i still worry whenever i remember it, as of now she's safe. but half the orchestra stayed in ukraine. some of them have joined soldiers on the battlefield. musicians from all over europe have stepped in as replacements, merge with stories in venus. it was a gun to mucus, or if, if, if we feel united with immunizations who have joined us, if you're just with duck the other one and we see ourselves as a european family, though, which involve as much as reasoning, but the ortho, on those is the blurred nurse music is at all times, it's a very important part of our lives with her because it, how was it to distract us? youngers, just because i touched, especially when something sad is happening, when im lager, as it is now go no tristram to visual imagery. their grandmother was of

the stage a place of refuge to forget all their worries for a brief moment, at least in some dylan i'm the fact that we're here does me make it any easier? and for those who stayed, we are really suffering and we feel great pain for our people. now, boy, several nashua order. when we pray, the war will soon be over there not just playing for the audience, for their families and the people of ukraine. by late april they will have performed more than 20 cities. what comes next? no one knows. was it just need to we not thinking about the future now my mike tosto, our values have completely changed yet. soccer families, much of what used to be important to us, has now turned to dawson chest. we no longer have any plans. story. allies will

never be the same again. you even get inside us to nothing is as it was, it is meaningless. but she's kind of looking, we know how important it is to cherish our loved ones and each new day when we try to give our best every day because no one knows what to morrow will bring his lashed up, which it's after music as a steadying force on the face of uncertainty, the musicians strength and courage has made a profound impression on handsomer thank you for having the courage be understood. thank you for being part of our family. we love you all of this. all of the fixed, the next piece is of course dedicated to the women of ukraine, and that can only be one piece. wonder well, edge tricks. i wonder what ah

ah ah, the war in ukraine has led to an outpouring of solidarity and polarizing viewpoints of per diva, and an a trip co has condemned the war, but not russian. president, putin, now she's been dropped by her job and management. her german label says it won't be recording any further productions with her for now. the debates continues is canceling russian culture the right thing to do with

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