MOSCOW, April 25th. /TASS/. A screening of the feature film Nuremberg was held at Moscow’s Illuzion cinema theatre as part of the Not Subject to Revision cultural programme. According to a TASS correspondent, the event was attended by the foreign guests, including the heads of diplomatic missions accredited in Moscow.
“In the year of the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory, we organised a showing of the Russian feature film Nuremberg, dedicated to the Nuremberg Trials, the international military tribunal of 1945–46 that brought Nazi criminals to justice,” said Yelena Panina, Director of the Russtrat Institute and Chair of the Moscow Confederation of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, in remarks before the screening. She underlined the continued relevance of the subject in light of what she described as resurgent revisionism and attempts in Europe to reinterpret the events of the Second World War.
Diplomatic representatives, including ambassadors accredited in Moscow, were joined by Russian officials, senators, figures from the academic and cultural communities, business leaders, participants in the World Russian People’s Council, and members of the press.
Speakers at the event included Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Pankin, President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Alexander Shokhin, and the film’s creative producer Ilya Vasiliev. The latter stressed the significance of the project for Russian cinema: “It was important for us to make a film about the Nuremberg Trials because, in the international media, this subject is usually framed primarily through the perspective of the United States and Western Europe.”
The screening was co-organised by the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, the Moscow Confederation of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, and the Commission for Cooperation with International Organisations of the World Russian People’s Council. The initiative was supported by Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the federal agency Rossotrudnichestvo, and the Alexander Pechersky Foundation.