Anton Dolin in Amsterdam. War and Cinema 22 October 2023

“Cinema and War” is a theme with which we live, fall asleep and wake up every day for more than a year and a half.

War is shock, trauma, tragedy, but also inexhaustible material for reflection - both artistic and human.

Every film, even entertaining ones, conceived and shot in different circumstances - be it a Marvel blockbuster or a fantasy about Hogwarts wizards - seems to scream about the times of crisis that we happen to live through. Whether it’s the British art-horror about the Auschwitz commandant “Zone of Interest” (Cannes Grand Prix) or the acclaimed “Oppenheimer” about the genius who created the atomic bomb, the lyrical drama from Finland “Fallen Leaves” or the courageous adventure film “Bullfinch” from Russia - everywhere echoes of the ongoing war are heard.

Cinema is documentary and fiction, uncompromising and deceitful, honest and evasive - today it is participating in the war, whether its authors want it or not.

The famous film critic, author of the publication Meduza and the YouTube channel Radio Dolin, Anton Dolin, discusses how this front works in dialogue with the public.