The reactions from viewers to our work are especially important to us! Here is one comment on the project “GULAG.Witnesses.” that makes our team particularly proud of our viewer who lives in Russia!
” So we watched everything – all eight episodes. Of course, you made a completely unique film. And the book itself is unique, there is nothing like it, and the film turned out to be even more many-sided and large-scale.
I was simply amazed by the props used in the filming. How accurately everything conveys the spirit of that era! I especially remember the cherry jam that Lydia Boyko’s character cooks – so true that you can feel the smell and taste…
Chronicle footage and film fragments are selected and integrated perfectly, the same can be said about the musical arrangement.
It is very good that so many different sources were used, primarily literary ones – books by Solzhenitsyn, Varlamov, Zhzhenov, Razgon, Ginzburg, Rakhlins and further on the list, as well as the famous works of the artist Pyotr Belov and drawings by Euphrosyne Antonovna Kersnovskaya.
I’m not even talking about computer graphics, it’s all done at the highest level.
My sincere appreciation goes to everyone involved in this. I believe that I have the right to express gratitude on behalf of my grandfather and grandmother, who were kicked out of their own home in the winter of 1931 and placed with their children in a cold barn. It’s good that they weren’t driven to Siberia, but they also had to go through a lot when collectivization was going on, and then also…
This country – I don’t even know what to call it… After all this, they are now erecting monuments to Stalin, many dream of reviving the Octobrists and pioneers… Of course, in many ways we are all now reaping the fruits of what was not done at all in the early 1990s. There was no proper rethinking of this nightmare, there was no real trial of the regime and all these criminals.
Of course, this time after the collapse of this criminal, illegitimate Putin regime, it is necessary to take all this into account. This is a big lesson for everyone. The main thing is to destroy this regime as quickly as possible because they have gone completely crazy. All that is going on is just a complete madness…
Well, thank you, I’ll wait for the new eight episodes. It would be very good if the series was shown on the TV Rain or Current Time channel, or somewhere else where there is a Russian audience.
We are waiting for new episodes!”
