memories
Clash of
Read More75 years after the end of WWII in Europe
"there is a lot of fighting even against commemoration"
about the production
The film “Clash of Memories: 75 years after the end of WWII in Europe” premiered on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe and was filmed in three countries and commemoration spaces of WWII: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Westerplatte peninsula in Gdańsk and the Victory Museum in Moscow.
75 years after
WWII remains one of the most painful and conflicting episodes of the European nations’ memories. Present time conflicts are embedded in history and in the use of history as a political tool. In order to understand the roots of present conflicts, to overcome prejudices and stereotypes, we need to deal with history.
“I think even with the rise of the right wing-parties especially now in Germany of the AfD, there is a clash of cultures between the majority who are open for memory, commemoration and maybe minority who is even let’s say minimising a lot of things or fighting even against commemoration”.
Ulrich BAUMANN – Deputy Director of the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, in Berlin
Credits
EU-Russia Civil Society Forum presents
DIRECTOR: Stefano di Pietro IDEA & CONCEPT: Kristina Smolijaninovaitė PRODUCTION BERLIN: Christina Riek PRODUCTION GDANSK: Laurynas Vaičiūnas PRODUCTION MOSCOW: Evelina Rudenko CONSULTANT: Anna Sevortian
ARCHIVE MATERIAL: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Library of Congress, funded by The European Union, the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the OAK Foundation
INTERVIEW PARTNERS: Ulrich Baumann, Wojciech Duda, Nikita Lomakin, Alexander Mikhailov, Jörg Morré, Kristina Smolijaninovaitė
WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO: Barbara Anna Bernsmeier, Daria Bykova, Elena Eremeeva, Andrzej Gierszewski, Alexander Keller, Christopher Michael Kelley, Jacek Kołtan, Elena Komarova, Nela Laryšová, Nikita Lomakin, Nastassia Maes, Elisabeth Peck, Dmitriy Romanov, Maksim Shashkov, Ida Sveinhaug, Alicja Wancerz-Gluza, Gudrun Wolff, Elena Zhemkova