A film about Sakharov and the atomic bomb was shown at the festival in Moscow

A film about Sakharov and the atomic bomb was shown at the festival in Moscow



The language of animation also explained what a hydrogen bomb is.

In addition to films about ecology, anthropology, psychology, technical and humanitarian studies, the program of the FANK Contemporary Science Film Festival in Moscow, which will now move to other cities, presented the almanac “16 Ways to Change the World”. It was created by young filmmakers and peer scientists. The first knew little about science. It can be said that they were in a happy ignorance. For the second movie was a curiosity. Everyone was satisfied with the result.

Artistic director of the project Yulia Kiseleva is a director and producer of popular science films, winner of the Lavr and TEFI-region awards, twice nominated for the European Academy of Science Films, winner of prizes at Russian and international film festivals. In the FUNK program, she presented the film "The Chip Inside Me" and the almanac "16 Ways to Change the World", where she had a chance to work mainly with the girls' team. The number of women directors was five times higher than the number of men. The almanac was created on the basis of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.

As stated, 16 directors (in fact, there were a little more of them, someone filmed more than one, teaming up with colleagues), and 16 scientists jointly produced 16 five-minute films about Russian scientific achievements. They relate to a variety of areas and not some distant, but quite worldly. For example, cleansing the atmosphere of excess carbon dioxide, fighting plastic pollution, everyday burnout in the flow of life, the possibility of happiness in difficult times, getting to know your higher self. Not everything worked out. There are quite modest opuses, childishly naive. All the same, the heroes deserved more.

Sergei Eisenstein thought about how to return sensuality and passion to science. His ideas have become a guide for the organizers of the festival, which once began in Tobolsk, now moved to Moscow, then to disperse throughout the country. The program included not only recent films, but also Soviet classics: Mikhail Romm's Nine Days of One Year (1961). His heroes are young nuclear scientists, scientists obsessed with science. There were few followers of the classic. Modern feature films are focused on other characters. Only in documentary films there was an interest in science.

Andrey Sakharov. On the Other Side of the Window” by Dmitry Zavigelsky was created with the participation of animation film director Dmitry Geller. The difference between a hydrogen bomb and an atomic bomb is visually and highly artistically presented with the help of animation. The physicist and human rights activist Boris Altshuller, who knew Academician Sakharov well, was involved in the creation of the picture, and is grateful to him for many things. After the show, all three remained to talk with a small audience. It was even embarrassing in front of them, although a very young audience seriously and organizedly prepared for the meeting.

The film includes footage of Sakharov's stay in Gorky's exile, where he was under constant surveillance. Now, a wonderful museum has been created in the apartment where he lived, and the surviving meager furnishings of the dwelling of an outstanding person make a strong impression. There are also rare footage in the hospital, where Sakharov went on a hunger strike, and the doctor watching the unusual patient then tells a fantastic lie. Dmitry Zavigelsky used declassified documents from the archives of the KGB of the USSR, Sakharov's drawings in letters to relatives, notebooks dotted with formulas. The epic connected with the beloved son of Elena Bonner, the story of their reunion despite the prohibitions of the authorities, bullying, and now seems incredible. How could such a frail, physically weak person achieve what a titan could not do!



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