Siberiile fraţilor Mihalkov şi lacrimile noastre I.
The Siberias of the Mihalkov brothers and our tears (I)

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the Mihalkov brothers, Russian directors, and their cinematic art. The film Siberiada, directed by Andrei Mihalkov Koncealovski, remains a crushing film for the viewer who is confronted with the magnitude of the Russian soul. Director Andrei Mihalkov Koncealovski’s biography is spectacular and seemingly sinuous, leaving room for all sorts of comments from those who do not want to perceive in it the artist’s constant obsession with searching, discovering and certainly justifying the motivations of human truth behind history. In 2012, Koncealovsky wrote, directed and produced the documentary Battle for Ukraine, a film that, at the time, raised a series of questions that resonate even more painfully today. Russian director Andrei Koncealovsky tells us that Ukraine is not Russia, despite its common history, a conclusion that is painful for both Russia and a part of the Ukrainian society. The Mikhalkov family always had a close relationship with Kremlin. For the two filmmakers, this was a given. And they’re not to blame for that. After all, this is the context in which they were born and raised.

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