The evolution of the enemy image in Soviet cinema
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The evolution of the enemy image in Soviet cinema
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Who was he, the enemy of Soviet society during the Great Patriotic War? A foreign invader who treacherously attacked our land, robbed and exterminated civilians? A traitor who became a policeman for the Nazis and took revenge on the country or neighbors for personal offenses? Or maybe they were incompetent leaders who criminally ignored the growing and obvious Nazi threat? And which of them is scarier? Domestic cinema of 1941-1964 was a powerful tool of ideological influence on the minds and hearts of more than one post-war generation of Soviet citizens. Therefore, films of this time are of interest not only from the cultural but also from the historical point of view. The victory in the Great Patriotic War over the "external" enemy continued to reveal the "internal" enemy - cowards, deserters, nationalists, speculators, recruited agents, i.e. all those who, in the opinion of the authorities, actively hindered the fulfillment of the grandiose tasks of the postwar restoration of the economy and peaceful life of socialist society. The author analyzes what transformation the image of the enemy as a foreign element underwent in postwar films, what factors - political or purely artistic - influenced it, and, finally, who and what tasks the filmmakers set for themselves and how they were embodied and transformed in the processes of creating Russian cinema of the mid-20th century.
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