Check out 2:57
A explanation has been sent in to Vlad that helps us to understand that this odd seeming event from the perspective of Russian culture.
Thank you Albrecht.
I don’t even know where to begin. You have to be brought up in Russia, with all the fundamental antipathy to anything Nazi, to know what is going on here. There is no glorification of the Nazi ideas here at all. Anybody watching it from that viewpoint has no other way but to correctly understand the premise of the story: love at first sight is capable of transforming even the most hardened and brainwashed monster. Inside of every human is a soul, capable of better things. The members of the jury though made fun of the choice and wacky things that the “German soldier” started with like shooting the lady immediately and missing. The contradiction between what the pair (typically one pro dancer and one movie actor) selected and how well they performed the actual dance made everybody wince but there was not much more than that. I wouldn’t give this non-story any significance whatsoever.
What I also personally didn’t like: anachronism of using Frank Sinatra in the times of WWII. That did not compute. But then again, they were trying to attach it to the celebration of the “Cosmonaut day” (a big deal in Russian history).
Is this the political rehabilitation of the Nazi’s and Fascism or is it the political rehabilitation of the Russian Armies that shot their political officers and joined the Germans thinking they were moving to freedom?
Either way it puts out a very interesting look at what is going on in Russia.
They are excellent dancers, one must admit. A performance with an emotional and historical context, a love story. I think this is much ado about nothing and does not reflect upon the Russian people.
P.S: I wonder who killed her.
A Russian, she was conglomerating with the enemy.
Given the normal Russian reaction to anything Nazi this is a very significant event.
collaborating
Exact. A spy…
Meaning she was a spy.
er…. it reminds me somewhat of this :
watch the scene at 0:40
that 1944 movie as such was a Hollywoodian glorification of the Communist Soviet Union ...]or even the end of this scene ….
Back then most of the Hollywood bigshots were very patriotic and hated communism as much as they hated fascism.
FDR ordered the studios to make the propaganda films about how good the Soviets were, Walter Brennan appeared and according one of his nephews he as a very staunch anti-communist who had to be forced to make the film. I understand that a lot of the studio heads had to be forced to make the movies.
co-conjoining with the enemy ..
Patton was right. We should have invaded the USSR and got rid of Stalin.
So was MacArthur, once the Korean War started we should have fought to a clear victory.
I don’t even know where to begin. You have to be brought up in Russia, with all the fundamental antipathy to anything Nazi, to know what is going on here. There is no glorification of the Nazi ideas here at all. Anybody watching it from that viewpoint has no other way but to correctly understand the premise of the story: love at first sight is capable of transforming even the most hardened and brainwashed monster. Inside of every human is a soul, capable of better things. The members of the jury though made fun of the choice and wacky things that the “German soldier” started with like shooting the lady immediately and missing. The contradiction between what the pair (typically one pro dancer and one movie actor) selected and how well they performed the actual dance made everybody wince but there was not much more than that. I wouldn’t give this non-story any significance whatsoever.
What I also personally didn’t like: anachronism of using Frank Sinatra in the times of WWII. That did not compute. But then again, they were trying to attach it to the celebration of the “Cosmonaut day” (a big deal in Russian history).
Of course reality or fiction can be misinterpreted if you don’t have the right cultural background …
… but on another level some ideas and themes seem to be recurrent throughout history or at least let’s say with life’s perception and its representation … – an autocratic regime -love and treason – a girl falling in love with an ennemy – choreographed dances -a jury – an audience / the plebeian / the public
watch this scene from the Italian movie “Spartaco” you can find in it all the same “ingredients” as in the Russian TV program
[..... all the film's negatives, copies and rights were bought by Hollywood to prevent its release - not to damage the commercial success of their own Spartacus ]