"People’s World" film screened and discussed at the Presidential Library

"What does people’s world look like"? It seems to be ours, common, but at the same time, unfortunately, the people living there do not feel this, all the time being in an unstable situation. We give today, we don’t give tomorrow, the day after tomorrow we discuss joint development, etc.” - this is how Dmitry Semibratov describes the situation on the southeastern tip of Russia - the Kuril Islands.

The film was shown at the 106th Presidential Library’s cinema club meeting within the framework of the traditional annual international festival “World of Knowledge”.

The film is a large-scale research and adventure project, designed to show the unique territory of the islands with their unique natural and human potential and actually rediscover the Kurils for residents of large Russia.

The authors of the film focused precisely on human stories. “People’s World” consists of a cycle of interviews with residents of all the large islands of the Kuril Ridge — representatives of different professions, who at different times and for various reasons turned out to be here and have different views on their future. But they all share one thing: in spite of all the difficulties, the harsh climate, everyday turmoil, and so on, they love these places, feel themselves close to them.

Among the heroes of the film are a sailor who miraculously won the fight against the sea several times and is now writing about it in verse, a married couple - lighthouse keepers, they are the only inhabitants of one of the islands, geologists, botanists, a ship cook and a local priest ... Different People and amazing fates against the background of the still sparsely populated and poorly known Kuril Islands, one of which is the cape with the symbolic name of the End of the World ...

The film is a participant in the film festivals “Salt of the Earth” (Samara), “We Will Live!” (Moscow), “Russia” (Yekaterinburg), “Glory to Russia” (Vladikavkaz), “Kunaki” (Makhachkala), “The World of Knowledge” (St. Petersburg), “Kinza” (Tyumen), “Sputnik over Poland” (Warsaw) and others.

After film’s demonstration, director Dmitry Semibratov answered the questions of the audience present in the multimedia room of the Presidential Library and said that he was looking forward to the continuation of the project. “Perhaps we will have a whole cycle about the remote territories of Russia”, - he said.

It is also worth noting that the Presidential Library is not only a partner and one of the permanent sites for the World of Knowledge since 2010, but for the first time this year presents to the audience of the film festival six documentary films of its own production dedicated to different periods of our country's history: “Chamber of Commerce”, “Capital City”, “Borderland”, “Icebreaker “Krasin””, dilogy “Russian fleet off the coast of America”.

Also, within the framework of the 106th Presidential Library’s cinema club meeting, a group of authors (Yuri Malyshev, Alexander and Oleg Semenov, Vladimir Sergeev) presented the three-volume edition of Russian Cosmism. The fact is that this year the World of Knowledge film festival is dedicated to cosmology, a scientific discipline studying the properties and evolution of the Universe.

According to authors, many Russian scientists and thinkers, such as Mikhail Lomonosov, Nikolao Fedorov, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Vladimir Vernadsky and Sergey Korolev are referred to “Russian cosmism”.

According to director of the film “People’s World”, the authors of the presented book talked about patriotism, trying to find what unites such different people living in the vast territory from the Land of Light on the Kuril Islands in the east to Kaliningrad in the west.