Open the Gate!.
THEY WERE...
YOUNG
HANDSOME
This world that I create
shall belong to your kind, Danvitz!
BLONDES
We will shoot every second one.
ONE...
DECADENTS
Who are you lvan?
MURDERERS
Stop! Old man play bad.
We shoot old man!
CRlMlNALS
BALTlC ACTORS
Nazis & Blondes
The Republic of Latvia.
Courland
The ground is full of metal here.
This is where the last battles of WWll on European soil were held.
One fine, summer day, here in Courland's Edwahlen castle,
there was a gathering of some of the celebrities from the Baltic states.
"The First Reunion of the Veterans of the ldeological Front"
These are the notorious film actors from the Baltic states.
Among their roles in Soviet cinema, were those of most of the invaders,
aryan beauties,
the Nazi executioners,
blondes, sexbomb's
the sadists.
You are the participants and veterans
of the ideological war.
Baltic actors had
the HONOR...
of depicting
EVlL on the screen!
Welcome to this castle!
Welcome to the veterans' reunion!
Ladies and gentlemen.
We are giving out prizes.
The name of our prize is...
the Ring of the Nibelungen.
During the Soviet regime, we heard thousands of times that
No one will be forgotten! Nothing will be forgotten!
And actually there is no one outside of the people here among us,
who could have depicted the roles of the German occupiers better.
But no prizes or awards were given out for that.
It is time
to put that wrong to right.
Cheer up!
Let's begin the gala evening.
The name of the first category is Albericht.
Hitler is by far the uncrowned height of Nazi roles.
The Nazi Hamlet!
To our knowledge, no Baltic actor has been given
the privilege of playing HlM, himself.
And yet, the callous steel shell of the fascist
sometimes concealed a person
who was wrought with doubts.
On the screen before you we present:
the candidates for the Ring of the Nibelung award...
the Doubting Nazi,
"The Ring of the Nibelunges" Nominees for the DOUBTlNG NAZl
I spent five years building my fort, fearing to think about the future.
I lived from inertia,
but now many Germans have started to understand,
what a catastrophe Nazism was for Germany.
Germany will survive, try to understand that.
Only madmen would think about destroying your homeland.
Follow your consciences.
The first nominee - Uldis Lieldidzs! Latvian SSR
I was filming in Mosfilm one day, and went across the street after the take
to the glass pavilion with the sign "Pelmennaja".
I went in, ordered 1.5 servings of dumplings.
Sour cream.
But I started to feel like something wasn't right.
A young man sat nearby,
He was 9-10, with his mother.
The young man kept peering at me, constantly, like this.
I was already afraid that something was coming.
It was. The boy stood up, very politely, came over to me and asked:
"Mister, are you a fascist?"
"Listen, young man, I'm an actor."
He said: "l know, that you are a fascist. " And he became very serious.
I told him that I was an actor;, that I came from Latvia to film at Mosfilm.
But he said: "l know you, you're a fascist. "
And he left, but I wasn't hungry any more after that.
He walked away and sat down next to his mom.
He finished eating, stood up.
Walked all the way through the room.
Turned around at the door and yelled across the whole room:
People!
There is a fascist over there, stuffing himself with our dumplings!
When they wanted to show a scoundrel in some stupid Soviet film
and to make it immediately obvious that he was an enemy and a scoundrel,
They had him chew with his mouth open.
Always chicken, eating with his hands...
Chicken is awkward to eat.
And who eats like that - of course, it's the enemy.
Because he wouldn't eat meat and potatoes. Only normal people eat that.
Of course normal people also eat chicken,
but eating chicken isn't appealing. So the guy eating chicken is a scoundrel.
He's eating chicken on screen, which means he's a scoundrel.
No doubt whatsoever!
A Tatar enemy is even worse.
Closer.
Stronger.
You can't buy your freedom from him.
A GERMAN!
In 1938, the forty-year-old Russian director, Sergey Eisenstein
makes the film "Alexandr Nevsky".
With a historical struggle as his backdrop, he prophetically depicts
the suffering of the upcoming war, which awaits the Soviet people during
the thieving conquest of the Germans.
Eisenstein was a person in the Bolshevik-Communist world at that time
who wasn't agree with the situation.
Eisentein.
He was clever, and he realized that he was a talented director
and he wanted to be the first in this world.
That was his eternal mistake.
When he makes "Alexandr Nevsky" he is on the verge of hysterics.
He has practically been denied work
after his last film was banned.
There's nothing he can do.
So he makes a deliberately fictitious film
with deliberately false historical facts.
He does it convincingly
Makes it into a sort of musical.
A kind of opera.
The film evokes a huge response, it is successful,
but the most important thing is, that Stalin says:
"Look - at last we have a completely flawless film."
The director was all the more surprised
when the freshly completed, operatic film was unexpectedly shelved.
The Soviet Union and Germany became allies.
As a twist of fate, Sergey Eisenstein had to direct at Moscow's Bolshoi theater -
a new opera - the Valkyrie from Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung series,
staged in honor of the German Foreign Minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop.
Those were dynamic times
and a lot was accomplished together before the quarreling began.
In 1939, a joint victory parade was organized in Brest-Litovsk
to celebrate the defeat of the Polish forces.
Together, two large powers shared Poland amongst each other,
with the Baltic countries and part of Romania in the back end.
The conquest seized land, raw materials, resources.
Some of these resources were completely unusual.
Conquering the Baltics also gave the Soviet film industry
control of talented actors. The future personifiers of evil.
And these are the main characters of this film.
And yet, the winds changed again.
The Second World War began; recent friends became enemies,
and the canons of depicting the enemy created by Eisenstein
once again went into use.
In "Rainbow," the lead was actually played by a German actor -
a rare case in Soviet cinema - Hans Klering, a German communist
who came here from Germany; he emigrated.
He really liked the Soviet order, the Soviet authority.
He lived quite well because he always played the roles of Germans in films.
He was already playing Germans in the 1930s,
but when the war started, he undoubtedly had a lot more work.
Soon we see how strong you are! You stinking bolschevik mother!
I'm mother!
- Then tell me where are they?
- I don't say anything.
He didn't play only in "Rainbow", but it is one rare situation
where the Germans and German villains were played by German.
There were others, such as Heinz Braun, a second-rate actor.
He also played a lot of Germans.
In Moscow, he worked as a newscaster on German Radio.
He and I worked together on two films.
I asked him once: "How do you feel, Heinzik?
You were a soldier, now you play a fascist?
And such a fierce one at that?
He said: "You know, everything they film here is nonsense.
I've lived through it all and I know.
What they're filming there is all fairy-tales.
You can't take it seriously.
I'm satisfied that I can correct the way we look, set the cross correctly.
Make sure we act the right way, wear our hats the right way.
And all the rest is made up, it's nonsense. Nothing like that ever happened
and I can't bear it.
But I get paid very well."
"The Ring of the Nibelunges" Nominees for the BEST NAZl EYE
One could smile because of one sight, and blush because of another.
There is also another, special facial expression, receiving an award today.
There is a reason to fight against the Communism virus.
You shouldn't even exist.
This mission will be completed.
Today or tomorrow.
Estonian SSR
Wouldn't you like to unite the people you trust,
a certain organization,
which could, in a sense, take care of the future of Russia.
Interesting...
...interesting...
But in the interest of avoiding misjudgment from the start,
there is no need to worry about Russia.
Russia shall not exist.
Lithuanian SSR
I want you to understand how easily we are entering the post-war world.
We shall have a government made up of important people,
and there, in freedom, we shall form the Fourth Reich!
We shall preserve national socialism.
It's all up to you.
Lithuanian SSR
And the Siegfried prize goes to...
Juri Lumiste, Estonian SSR!
In Soviet films, a Baltic actor
could only depict a negative character,
because he wasn't associated with Soviet people in any way.
And that's why in the '50s the actor who got the most screen time
and also the first actor who acted in those roles was
Ants Eskola.
And his brother, Olev Eskola, followed him.
They had the right faces to play negative characters.
Why did it have to be them in the role?
Well, because it wasn't enough that he was a negative character,
he was also a foreigner!
So he was doubly foreign.
Of course, all of this was done subconsciously.
But doubly foreign means that he was doubly negative.
Since a Soviet person met God for the first time,
by chance and subconsciously, only during the war,
then the holy place left empty within him was filled by war.
For the Soviet person, God was replaced by war.
They had to spoke of war using words like this.
Please accept us, War, take us in, dear mother.
We love you, we remember you.
We know that you are our God.
Become our new God, and we will show that
you are real, War!
You have none of the falseness and lies that Stalin's time sadly brought us.
There is nothing like that in you.
That's why all of the people were glorious.
You are our God, War. Enter our homes. All this was in the films.
Most of the screen Nazis of that time were played by Estonians.
But there was one notable Latvian actor with an eagle nose,
who acted in one very notable film.
Sports are an honest struggle, Herr Major... Sports are not politics!
Today's match is very important
and the winner must be the "Condor" Legion.
Because if they loose, then your whole team will be shot.
"Third quarter". This is a well-known film
about a German soccer team who had a match against Soviet players -
some were from concentration camps, some from jail, some just lived in Kiev.
They were put into a team and told
that if you beat us, then we will shoot you.
They did win and the Germans shot them all.
The scriptwriter and author who dug up that story, Borshagovski,
told me on live television about how that story made it to the film screen.
He said that first, he met almost all of the guys who played in the match.
Many of them lived in Kiev then, he visited someone in Sverdlovsk.
What do you mean visited, if they were all killed?!
No-ooo, one guy was randomly killed later, during a penalty operation.
The Germans said they would kill every 3rd man, and that's the one who died.
Oh really?! And here I thought that the Germans killed them all!
The man wrote a famous, documentary story,
with a decent film adaptation and he talked to the people it was about
who, according to his story, could consider themselves dead
even though they were alive and talked about their experiences.
Totally fantastic! It was surrealism!
But the author, himself, didn't think he did anything wrong.
The fact remained that they were killed, as if it didn't matter at all
The Baltic actors played few roles in the '60s
but they started to play more and more in the '70s.
The general attitude completely changes
and there is a cleavage in Soviet society
as everyone starts to look to the West.
There is something soulful about the Baltic actors.
It might even seem slightly Western on the screen
and thus it gives the film a certain prestige, accuracy. And depth.
And that's how l started to play Germans,
starting with simple soldiers, then officers, generals, and so on...
There was an interesting relationship
between the Russian audience
and us, the actors playing the roles.
I remember, that after the second film in Sevastopol,
I was given a police bodyguard,
because people threw rocks at me.
I didn't wear the uniform on the street, but during the crowd scenes
they saw that men in German uniforms were being filmed in the quarry.
I was attacked on the street and called names, so I got a bodyguard.
Unpleasant.
I was called a fascist on the street 10-20 times:
"Look, a fascist is coming, we know that fascist."
Some more, some less,
but almost all of the Baltic actors underwent
a kind of "christening of alienation".
Why did you stop now?
You see - Everything is calm and clear.
We made a film in Berlin, "The Last Voyage of the Albatross".
By chance, one of us knew the doctor
for the German soccer team.
And that doctor invited us to the theater.
In the basement, where we had a beer after,
There were some german actors. And then they asked
what we were doing in Berlin.
And we said that...
It was somehow embarrassing to say that we were doing a war film.
And they were very interested
and asked - So who do you play?
Well, we play German officers.
And awful, insulting laughter broke out.
They are playing us!
They are playing German officers! Ha ha haa!
"The Ring of the Nibelunges" Nominees for the BEST HUMOR
Germans and humor are two things that, for some reason, don't go together.
All you need is the right expression, a dead-on word
and everyone would be laughing.
But a German, especially one in uniform, isn't capable of that.
Gentlemen. Last stop.
Come - come.
Lithuanian SSR
Excellent!
A bull's-eye.
Estonian SSR
Sie sind Juden? Are you a Jew?
Ja, Juden.
Spielen sie bitte... Spielen Juden... Play a Jew...
Look, personally, I'm getting tired of this.
Sit down.
I am Richard Bradbury, have you heard of such a man? -Yes, I have.
If this is a political move, then stop acting like a bandit.
Lithuanian SSR
And the Votan prize goes to...
Juozas Budraitis, Lithuanian SSR.
In our village, in the barn, there were Germans having lunch
and they invited me to try their food.
I still remember gobbling from the aluminum pot with them.
To this day, I still remember the taste of their soup,
but I can't recreate it, find that same taste anywhere else.
They invited girls over and danced
but only threw candy at us, the small boys.
I remember that it was there I learned my first German words.
Guten Morgen.
Guten Morgen, sweetie. -Mom said that breakfast is ready.
Thank you, my dear.
They seemed really nice and benevolent.
Maybe I compared them to the Russian soldiers
who stole from us and killed people all year.
They stole everything,
but the Germans gave us treats.
I was astounded by that.
Estonian women remember German officers as very gallant men.
They were very dignified.
They were never hunched over with their hat askew, oh no, never.
They were officers all the time.
And they acted like officers.
A real soldier and a real man never wastes time.
One time I was invited to Germany to play a fascist.
Because even the Germans, themselves, refused to play that role.
Afterward everyone thanked me
because I said no and drove back to Latvia that evening.
And in Russia I never shot at anyone!
Not in a single film. I did have a holster on my belt.
Sometimes I kept cigarettes and matches in it.
But I said no to films where you had to play angry fascists.
And I never shot anyone.
It was against my nature.
I couldn't aim at a person. I refused.
It's very difficult for me to explain this to myself, and even to talk about it.
I purposefully wanted to be different than how they had always been portrayed.
To justify them.
If you confess who you were hiding the radio transmitter for
and who your accomplices were, then your punishment is changed.
But what can we do if you really want to die so badly...
To die...
When a Balt appeared as a German,
the liberal public sighed with relief.
Everyone hoped that, if anyone can carry this role, then it's him.
He's going to play something complex for us.
Unfortunately that practically never actually happened.
Maybe because they had to play in very bad films and very rarely in good ones.
And the war theme became an entertainment genre for the public.
Completely entertainment.
What's the film about, they asked each other? Oh, war? Let's go have fun then.
But they were dealing with war, it's a tragedy, a horror!
We said a lot of propagandistic lines.
I could memorize 2-3 pages in a few minutes. Word for word.
And I could do this also.
But it would vanish from my identity in seconds, I didn't remember it.
In my childhood, during the 80s of the last century,
they showed Soviet war films on TV every week, if not every day.
I really liked them. I could watch them all day.
I don't know if that was the reason, but at six I was sure
that I wanted to direct films myself. And to start making war films.
At fifteen my dream became true.
I made my first film with an 8mm camera.
It was a parody of a Soviet war film.
By then, no one took those films seriously any more.
I found the actors right here in the neighborhood.
The boys were happy to run around in uniforms.
Their interest waned when things became more and more serious.
They snuck away from the set during the retakes.
Another problem was no one wanted to play russians.
I had to force them to do it. They all wanted to be Germans.
Maybe it was because the uniforms were nicer...
The public and the critics often asked:
"Algis, why are you so good at the German roles in particular?"
To be honest, it wasn't always pleasant to hear that.
You want to die a heroine? No, you die in the soldiers' brothel.
Alright, I'll be more humane.
You will be shot, but yours will not find out about it.
Let Brjuhhanov suffer!
Brave!
Very brave.
There was nothing about the Germans, like with any enemy, nothing that
would make us to comply with them.
If something like THAT had emerged,
our whole world view would have changed.
But a Soviet person was not capable of that.
Making the enemy figures seem sensible was a piece of cake.
The scriptwriters and directors learned how to do that.
The enemy could even be smart, attractive, but hi were never justified.
That is exactly what separates realism from socialist realism.
The main characteristic remained, that the enemy did not have his own truth
and thus he remained the enemy.
At the cinema "October", which is on Arbat street in the middle of Moscow,
there was a meeting of the popular actor Algimantas Masiulis with the viewers,
they had the poster up and everything.
I heard some noise and asked what it was.
The public, 2000 people!
My God, they're not only sitting but standing already as well.
Director Matvejev went on stage alone and said: "It's very nice
that so many of you have gathered to honor
a Lithuanian actor we all know so well
the "Head Fascist of the Soviet Union", Algimantas Masiulis!"
It was met with laughter and wild applause.
That's how it generally went, though he wasn't exactly right
because from the cast list you see that the USSR head fascist was Lieldidzs.
100%
But Masiulis was more memorable
and people knew him by name. That's why Matvejev was partially right.
In that muddy swamp it was hard
to remember specific actors
not even specific finds or good performances,
but even weird personifications of Germans.
...it had be there, it's not possible that those things didn't exist...
For example, I remember one horrible Russian film
where estonian Sulev Luik plays a German,
the main enemy.
Damn that country!
His face made him stand out from the other, numberless screen-Germans.
Because he really had a face like an alien from another planet
and, besides, it had this terminally ill look to it.
So he wasn't so much the figure of the enemy,
as some terminally ill alien who had flown in from who-knows-where,
ended up there during a war and being forced to depict a German,
so that no one would know that he was from another planet.
So look, what happened - of course this wasn't intentional for the director at all.
This top actor is different from Lieldidzs. He was an untraditional actor in general.
A complex SS-figure emerged on the screen
because he, himself, was grotesque, original, intricate.
His expressions were astonishing.
But I guess those films didn't need such a complex SS character.
That's why that field was ploughed - those roles mostly went to -
Uldis Dumpis and Uldis Lieldidzs.
Even if Dumpis is a good actor, and he had one or two great moments,
though he also accepted all kinds of crap, but he's simply a better actor,
then Lieldidzs got so stuck in his
eternal SS costume and make-up
that nothing interesting came from him. It couldn't.
Back when I was playing German officers in those films,
then 90% of the directors had no other request except for:
Uldis, look more cruel!
Be more serious.
Uldis, not like that! You have too gentle eyes. Stop it!
That was what I constantly heard
as long as I played Germans.
It was insulting.
And if I had my own thoughts -
No, that's not necessary!
Look crueler, hang in there, and that's good.
If you asked those directors what they wanted to say with their film,
then they usually started...
their speech with the following words:
Our people blah blah blah... The large catastrophe
and we are in debt to our forefathers, who fought for us,
and that's why I decided to film all of the spies etc
And when they kept repeating themselves, you could immediately see
that their heads were empty while they were making the film.
They just repeated the customary ideological and mythological phrases.
No doubt they were fed by the sensibility of war as religion -
It is my holy duty as an artist to express my opinion about this subject!
Now I've played lots of fascists, or Germans, however you should say it.
You could ask what impression they've left on me.
After all, it was a big job.
With each film you had to say something with your words or acting.
I can say only that.
I couldn't say how many roles I've played,
I don't have the scripts. I threw them away!
I have forgotten them.
If I think about what is left from it all,
then the answer is - nothing.
A few photos. Just a couple.
It came a time for me to leave the theater and I stopped performing in films.
I didn't need all that!
I ripped everything up. Didn't keep any sort of record.
Why do I need those photos? Old memories!
I started living a new life, without theater, without film.
What do I need those photos for any more?
Uldis works in a building in downtown Riga. As a night guard.
We are giving out our last, special prize,
The Ring of the Rings
The Lifetime Achievement Award.
The award for the most numerous and distinguished Nazi roles will go to...
Please come to the stage, maestro -
MlSTER
MASlULlS - der Ring des Niebelungen!
Thank you for everything, had I known then
that for playing so many of them
I would have to accept these heavy stones,
and drag them home to Kaunas,
I would not have accepted so many roles. Thanks.
We were thinking - it's one or the other,
it's either a documentary or a feature film.
We're Germans, and of course,
we're shocked when we see a swastika. It's forbidden for us.
And we thought, this HAS to be something historical
and hopefully not something contemporary.
Fascism won't prevail!
Sadly, many Russian-speaking inhabitants of the Baltics think - THlS is contemporary.
Their opinions are shared by the Russian media, which keenly follows
the activities happening in their neighboring countries.
The following is the Russian national television's overview of the situation.
Our correspondent, Jekaterina Zorina is on the line.
Jekaterina, what is happening in the capitol of Latvia right now?
Today, they are trying to have a reunion of former SS legionaries.
In Moscow, Russian university students gathered in front of the Latvian embassy.
They carried posters with anti-fascists slogans
and re-evoked the Nuremberg War Trials.
At the end of the demonstration, the students used a sickle to smash
cans of Riga sprats, laid in the shape of a swastika,
thus expressing their protest against the nationalistic mindset in Latvia
and their solidarity with antifascists.
The word, Fascist' is synonymous with enemy for a person of Russian descent.
In this case it is being used against the Estonian government,
whose Prime Minister, Andrus Ansip, is depicted in an SS uniform.
Fascists!
Things are getting rough.
It seems that we have a few unanswered questions left.
It is time to change the context and tone.
Is it all just a play?
Sit down.
The former head of the concentration camps, told the SSR War Tribunal:
I don't consider myself guilty.
I followed the orders I received from Berlin.
If I had refused, I would have been shot.
The representative of the Soviet High Command
submitted materials that unquestionably confirm the defendant's guilt.
Do you personally feel responsible for anything?
I don't feel guilty. I'm not going to admit guilt.
Ideologically, I don't see anything wrong with it.
No. I had it all under control.
And I thought I played Nazi philosophy correctly.
Their particular world view, their attitude towards people. Their racism.
Convictions!
Sieg Heil!
If the people East of us
now call us bad names, my people, us-
the Balts,
then it's their own fault.
It's because they are underdeveloped. And they are...
How would you say it - underread.
They simply couldn't understand it.
And the actors only filled the roles of the enemy - and fairly intelligently.
Was playing fascist a certain kind of protest
against soviets and communism?
It's very difficult to answer that.
Finding something like that in those roles is overstating it.
Though I personally found German pilots to be nicer than Russian ones.
Do you think this is funny?
Don't you think that, in playing Germans,
you abetted in the Balts developing a fascist reputation?
It would be very awful, if that were true.
But even now it's hard to find a reason
for why Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians were chosen to play German officers.
It's very hard for me to answer that.
I don't know why it was like that.
Perhaps the directors thought that we were-
not our faces, but rather our demeanor and the way we think-
more like the Germans.
And on the other hand, I don't know
why young Russian soldiers
called Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians fascists.
Hundreds of actors played,
as they were called - "fascists".
Hundreds of actors have played executioners.
Hundreds of actors have played traitors.
Are you going to start incriminating all of them as well?
Fascist. They called them fascists? Where does that word come from?
Mussolini.
But now all of Russia is yelling "fascism" and "fascists"-
they have a completely different understanding of the word.
I guess it's profitable and necessary for someone
to have two nationalities in opposition.
I've been hung, shot, drowned;
I feel bad inside,
even though I know that I will stand up now, I still feel like
I've been to the other side.
I've had to take it all in emotionally.
I'm asking you for the last time.
Who blew up the bridge?
Ready the machine-guns!
Geliebt, ungeliebt! She loves me, she loves me not!
The ones on the right side will go home,
but the others, we will shoot!
I blew up the bridge!
The officer says that no one could do that alone.
You see everything in war.
Shoot him!
Where are you from? What's your name, son? - Kingfisher.
I'm seeing these scenes for the first time right now.
They are brutal.
They had another option, with dogs
and pistols.
I refused to shout and I refused to shoot.
Did you have a weapon?
Have you used it?
I had, but I've never shot it. I said no to films like that.
Really?
We can prove, that you used...
Be ready.
Gentlemen, this land and water belongs to you. Orchestra!
Let's forget about these hard times of war.
Shooting at people and shooting in the air are two different things.
Volodja, run!
What was it that we saw?
I don't remember this film, these actors, or this situation.
I don't remember it.
It seems like it is you shooting.
That's possible, but I doubt it.
That was your hand with the gun?
ULDlS!
But what's the difference?
Whether you shoot, or give the order,
or say ideological things?
Yes, but you cannot take another person's life,
everyone knows that.
But ideologists destroy many things and often
and, so far, all oppressors have done that.
There were times when you had to do that.
You had to hang, shoot, destroy people
when you made war films.
Millions of people obeyed.
Why are you judging me?
You don't want to talk to us humanely?
You have to lie and twist the truth. -I'm telling the truth.
I didn't see anyone else at all.
Do something with them!
Pick them up!
You are showing me vulgar, horrific things.
Do you want me to take responsibility for them, or what?
It won't work!
On the hill, on the left, there is a monument, a cross.
It is a memorial cross,
erected to honor our people's victory in the Big War for the Fatherland.
It is nearly 20 m high with a diameter of 8 m. It weighs 44 tons.
This cross has been consecrated by the Kuban metropolitan lsidore.
It's not by chance that it stands here, in the foothills of the Caucasia.
It stands here to remind all of the Caucasian peoples
that human life remains the most important thing to this day.
And everyone, no matter their nationality or religious belief,
simply must live in peace.
All together? - No.
Give me the ticket.
Stand here. Look there.
I'm staring right at him.
Hold your hand like this.
And now we see a dolphin painting for us
and, why are you too ashamed to honor the artist with friendly applause.
Let's clap as a miracle of the seas occurs before our eyes.
It is difficult to say what Max is depicting in his piece.
Perhaps it is his watery home,
or perhaps this is his perspective of us sitting in the bleachers!
Applause, please! Just look at them twirl!
Any synchronized swimming team would be jealous!
Max and Nicol...
Inga and Alissa...
Greetings to the cinema folks in Latvia!
The actors Uldis Lieldidzs, lvars Kalninsh.
The Anapa film festival is unique. It has been created to join the former
Soviet Socialist Republics.
Uzbeks, Georgians, and Russians party together here.
We invited Uldis to watch the contemporary films of his former homeland
and to participate in a friendly party affair.
Let's go. Finita la Commedia!
But they're filming... - Maybe over here, stand here.
Excuse me for goodness sakes. - What are you going to do...
Everything is just like it was 30, 40, 50 years ago.
The Big directors,
the Big actors, all here.
Even the young guys who are still making films.
After looking around-
there is nothing there, and never has been-
everyone walking around - Just look at what I've accomplished!
It's sad to see it.
I hoped that it would be more beautiful, better, more interesting than before.
There was no point to these films, if you look at them all.
It wasn't so easy to stuff yourself into a German uniform 38 times.
But what had improved... I don't see anything different!
All right, that's enough! It's late. I don't need to think in the evening.
I need to rest.
But I don't know how to rest. I don't know how to do anything.
I could go out for a walk right now, but where would I go?
It's dirty everywhere, what is there to see-
this market, these huts!
Piles of garbage wherever you look.
Where can you escape to?
I stayed in Sevastopol for the night,
I wanted to see the morning sunrise, and I was so lucky!
A few seconds before the sun rose from the water - a sudden dance on the sea!
There were some 10 -15 of them.
An unbelievable dance. They didn't jump alone,
but two or four of them at a time.
I saw a magnificent performance.
So high! And so graceful!
Smart animals. And beautiful!
We will never be anything like them:) Not in a lifetime!
We won't meet again, not ever. They won't be here today.
He goes where he wants.
He is his own boss...
Russian actor. Nearly 20 villains in cinema.
Aleksey Poluyan played 2007 summer in German movie, a russian soldier,
rapist in Berlin 1945. The very fact was widely discussed in russian internet community:
Listen Poluyan, we could collect money for you, not to play in this german movie...
How to explain him that this is not proper thing to do? Igor Kostin, Moscow
We wish famous artist would suffocate of the german blood
money and never come back to Russia. Vlad
Aleksey, if you play in this movie, I consider it as betrayal.
GOD save your soul. Andrey Ekaterinburg greenmile81@yahoo.com