Directed by Valeria Gai Germanica: "I can promise that I will no longer take about teenagers"
Natalia Kochetkova, January 15, 2010
on January 11 in an evening broadcast of Channel premiered multiserial proprietary project of the young director Valeria Gai Germanika "School". Author of the acclaimed film "All will die, but I'll stay," received the 61 th Cannes Film Festival in competition "Golden Camera" Special Jury Prize, took the radical as close as possible to the reality series about teenagers. From the first day the film managed to create around themselves is not only a flurry of discussions on the Internet, but also dissatisfaction with the head of department of education in Moscow Olga Larionova, which opposed the show series on TV. On the "School" in life and on screen with Valeria Gai Germanika talked columnist Week "Natalia Kochetkova.
week: The film - in some degree outrageous on your part? Did you expect such a reaction to the picture?
Valeria Gai Germanica: Yes, I was not going to shock anyone. For me, the word "outrageous" does not exist. We just make movies. As for the reaction - it is always adequate to the audience. What the viewer - such a reaction, a film - such a reaction. If they respond, they are adequate. And the fact I was waiting ... Producers warned me that the audience may well respond. But it is not interesting, I'm just doing my job. I've been doing what he likes. I kicks it in, I sit and shoot do not know specifically what is happening.
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N: That is, when producers have warned that the rise may cry, you are not confused?
Germanicus: And how do I respond? Do I have to foam at the mouth, lying on the floor? I am sincerely worried with those people who worry that it shows on television, share their feelings. But as an artist, as though it may sound snobbish, I can not shoot differently.
N: This leads to compare the "School" with "All will die, but I'll stay ...
Germanicus: I think that we should not compare these two films - they are different projects. The films are told different stories. No matter, the young heroes in them or not: I just made about people, not just about teenagers. About human relations. All are the same, all the same problems. The main form, not content.
N: The problems of adolescents in the "School" is not merely an adolescent, and universal?
Germanicus: They are, of course, universal, if only because that teenagers might not be so hostile to each other, if they had not formed the environment that surrounds them. Kids are aggressive only when aggressive adults.
N: Adults have these children unmotivated evil?
Germanicus: I'm not saying that somebody somebody did ... This is generally your subjective notions of good and evil. If we consider the Old Testament issues, we have shifted vectors and the concept of good and evil, retribution and justice. When you say angry children - it is subjective.
N: Let's look at a specific episode from the movie: Grandma asks her granddaughter to stay with his grandfather in the hospital, because it is transferred from the intensive care ward. Child in response to rude ... Why?
Germanicus: Because such children and should be. Because children are there. Parents do not recognize their children, but children do not have time myself otrefleksirovat at this age and also a not very recognized. As time passes, they will admit: yes, we were. I know these children, I was not in the same school, worked with troubled teens. No matter what the family of a teenager - they all occur in the same court, involved the same, they drink the same cocktails. Adolescent form the social environment, their genes and upbringing, which he was given the parents. Think about it you, because you're older. Because only in the Communion, the right conversation can affect the person who is in a period of formation.
N: We can assume that after a while you will be of interest not teenagers, and elderly people - this is also the age of insecurity?
Germanicus: I have a very wide range and great potential. I'm a good director, believe me, please. When I have the opportunity to shoot another movie, I'm sure those loans. I can promise that will no longer be made about teenagers. I am interested in people. General.
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