Leading Russian Cinematographers Speak Out Against War in Ukraine
The letter's full translated text and list of the signatories are below:
We, Russian cinematographers, demand a stop to military aggression against Ukraine, an immediate ceasefire, and a withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukrainian territory.
On February 22, 2022, Russia started a war with Ukraine. There is no geopolitical excuse, no goal of any kind that would justify taking human lives – don't let propaganda convince you otherwise.
The officially stated aims of this "operation" have nothing to do with reality: the war is being fought across all of Ukraine, people are being killed or forced to flee their homes and spend their nights in bomb shelters. What can possibly justify that? What greater purpose is worth the people of Kyiv learning to tell a Grad rocket from a Smerch rocket by the sound? No such purpose exists.
The so-called "military operation" will isolate Russia from the rest of the world for decades, expel it from the international cultural scene, lead to devastating consequences for its economy, and stain us and our children with deserved disgrace. We have not done enough to prevent this war, but we do not want it — and will not let it be waged in our name.
We demand that the war with Ukraine be stopped.
- Fedor Lyass
- Roman Vasyanov
- Michael Hasaya
- Pavel Kapinos
- Levan Kapanadze
- Eduard Moshkovich
- Alexey Berkovich
- Alexander Ilhovsky
- Boris Litovchenko
- Ulugbek Khamraev
- Denis Panov
- Evgeniy Privin
- Mikhail Mukasey
- Dasha Grafova
- Mikhail Dementyev,
- Dmitry Gribanov
- Mikhail Kvirikadze
- Pavel Beklemishev
- Sergey Astakhov
- Gleb Filatov
- Sergey Machilskiy
- Yuriy Korobeynikov
- Yuriy Nikogosov
- Andrey Krauzov
- Evgeny Kozlov
- Mikhail Krichman
- Denis Firstov
- David Khayznikov
- Vladislav Opelyants
- Tim Lobov
- Denis Alarkon
- Vladimir Bashta
- Maxim Trapo
- Pyotr Dukhovskoy
- Maxim Zhukov
- Dmitry Maltsev
- Evgeniy Korzhenkov
- Vladimir Ushakov
- Alexander Nosovskiy
- Anton Drozdov-Schastlivtsev
- Alexander Ponomarev
- Mila Shamraeva
- Dmitry Shabanov
- Marlen Butros Yusef
- Sergey Komarov
- Andrey Ivanov
- Ivan Kochubeyev
- Timofey Fastovskiy
- Alexey Yankov
- Andrey Danelyan
- Arkadiy Chistyakov
- Mark Miller
- Alexander Grinash
- Victor Sapozhnikov
- Artem Sadovnikov
- Lyudmila Kuropyatkinova
- Nikita Petsa
- Stanislav Ambartsumov
- Vladislav Politik
- Karim Imamiev
- Arsen Sarkisyan
- Ksenia Selvian
- Alexey Artamonov
- Vladimir Borisov
- Timur Gavrilenko
- Artur Kreytor
- Anna Rozhetskaya
- Roman Sivozhelezov
- Valentin Piskun
- Egor Danilov
- Gleb Neupokoev
- Maxim Efros
- Ivan Tyshko
- Alexander Nikolskiy
- Fedor Orlovskiy
- Andrey Vorobyev
- Denis Aleksanyan
- Anton Verbin
- Gleb Klimov
- Anton Zhabin
- Pavel Fomintsev
- Igor Buryak
- Vyacheslav Lazarev
- Igor Kozhevnikov
- Oleg Kolskiy
- Vasiliy Ivanov
- Gleb Kurochkin
- Leonid Proshak
- Andrey Ivanov
- Alexander Panichkin
- Mitya Smirnov
- Evgeniy Antipov
- Alexander Dmitriev
- Alexandra Avdonina
- Vasiliy Shirokiy
- Vladimir Timchuk
- Dima Yekimov
- Matvey Stavitskiy
- Mikhail Senin
- Avel Dotsenko
- Robert Sarukhanyan
- Ilya Grizenko
- Nikolay Smirnov
- Dmitriy Tskhai
- Ilya Lavrov
- George Shanovich
- Alexander Aleshkovskiy
- Alexey Khaustov
- Lotos Soony Park
- Vyacheslav Lazarev
- Sergey Politik
- Ilya Averbakh
- Dmitriy Dolinin
- Dmitri Blueglass
- Anna Shepilova
- Konstantin Artseulov
- Alexander Galkin
- Andrey Nikolaev
