Comments on: New Film: Letter to Anna

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:06:57 +0000

Does anyone know where I could find a DVD of this film? Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks!

By: james

james — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:05:28 +0000

Has anyone actually confirmed these human rights reports. Allegations against the Serbs being genocidal turned out to be absolutly false negating the fact that the Bosnian regime was hosting international terrorists. Politkovskaya has never commented on the large number of chechen war crimes against Russian civilians including the invasion of 1999 into Dagestan.
She also disregards the fact that a large number of international organised terrorist networks are involved in Chechnya and that there financied through organised crime (including Berezovsky) as citied in Paul Murphys book Wolves of Islam

By: Kalle Kniivilä

Kalle Kniivilä — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:06:37 +0000

This seems to be the same film that was shown on Swedish television in February, so it can't be completely new. This is what I wrote about the film in my blog when it was shown here: Зато в понедельник показали хороший, серьезный, не крикливый швейцарский фильм об убийстве Анны Политковской. Тут тоже мелькает Березовский, но ему не удается испортить картину. Кстати, здесь тоже выскочил этот Ханпаш Теркибаев, но тут главный редактор Новой Газеты назвал его фамилию, и дал какие-то факты, так что уже можно самому сориентироваться.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:06:58 +0000

It always strikes me that when it comes to films, books, etc and Russia that people immediately jump to politics as the reason why they don’t get wide dissemination. I think that it’s mostly economics. For example, I don’t now how many of you have read Boris Nemtsov’s “experts report” but he originally wanted to print 100,000 copies. They couldn’t find a distributor and Nemtsov cried “Kremlin.” They ended up printing 5000. Now I don’t doubt that there were some distributors who didn’t want to touch it for political reasons. But 100,000 copies? Whether you agree with him or not, there is just no market for Nemtsov’s views. As there is no large market for a film about Politkovskaya, especially if she calls the Chechen War genocidal. Chris is right that a film that calls American soldiers genocidal wouldn’t find an audience in the States (minus a few quacks), and for good reason.

By: poemless

poemless — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:33:28 +0000

Thanks for this. You know, I’ve been repeatedly surprised (I shouldn’t be, but am) by what we, I, the media often attribute to political -ideological- meddling that is actually much more easily explained by basic economics. I had a film professor once instruct the class, before an exam, that when unsure of the correct answer, write “money.” I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately because I’ve just attempted to write up a little (impossible) synopsis of Russian film over the past decade or so. Uhm if you are into film, check it out.

http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2008/5/20/182936/797

BTW, has anyone seen “Aleksandra,” Sokurov’s new film about Chechnya?

By: Chrisius Maximus

Chrisius Maximus — Wed, 21 May 2008 11:52:17 +0000

I think this is about as likely to find a large Russian audience as a film about genocidal American soldiers in Iraq would have to find an American audience.

To preempt Tim, I hereby state that I do not think that American soldiers are genocidal.