{"id":39749,"date":"2024-02-14T15:01:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T14:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/looks.film\/?p=39749"},"modified":"2025-02-18T18:30:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T17:30:45","slug":"a-nation-denied-ukraines-battle-for-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/looks.film\/en\/a-nation-denied-ukraines-battle-for-history\/","title":{"rendered":"A NATION DENIED &#8211; Ukraine&#8217;s Battle For History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content&#8221; full_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; parallax=&#8221;content-moving-fade&#8221; parallax_image=&#8221;39752&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1707923923421{background-position: center;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content&#8221; disable_custom_paddings_mobile=&#8221;true&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1591600707685{padding-top: 35px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243; disable_custom_paddings_mobile=&#8221;true&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1591600711648{padding-left: 70px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<span class=\"dtable--txt\">2024 | Documentary | <span style=\"color: #00263e;\"><span class=\"sep-item\">90&#8242; &amp; 2 x 45&#8242; |\u00a0<span class=\"imdbRatingPlugin\" data-user=\"ur1705756\" data-title=\"tt31430485\" data-style=\"p4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31430485\/?ref_=plg_rt_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/ia.media-imdb.com\/images\/G\/01\/imdb\/plugins\/rating\/images\/imdb_31x14.png\" alt=\"Blackbox Ukraine: Kampf um die Geschichte (2024) on IMDb\" \/> <\/a><\/span><script>(function(d,s,id){var js,stags=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(d.getElementById(id)){return;}js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"https:\/\/ia.media-imdb.com\/images\/G\/01\/imdb\/plugins\/rating\/js\/rating.js\";stags.parentNode.insertBefore(js,stags);})(document,\"script\",\"imdb-rating-api\");<\/script><\/span><\/span><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;20px&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3>A NATION DENIED<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Montserrat UltraLight;\">UKRAINE&#8217;S Battle For History<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;10px&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content_no_spaces&#8221; equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1592215524041{margin-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243; disable_custom_paddings_mobile=&#8221;true&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1588327151504{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;padding-left: 70px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Russia&#8217;s war against Ukraine is also a war on historical truths. The groundwork for this conflict has long since been prepared by Russian propaganda, fairytales and fantasy \u2013 from the heroic exploits of the Cossacks to the spy novels of the 1970s that so excited the young Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Putin justifies his invasion of Ukraine with an ostensibly shared Russian-Ukrainian history. In his view of that history, a view shared by a large swathe of the Russian population, there is no place for Ukraine as an independent cultural and political nation. Ukrainians beg to differ, or rather they fight to differ.<\/p>\n<p>In this documentary, we examine key formative milestones in Ukrainian history: the founding myth of the Ukrainian (and Russian) state featuring Prince Vladimir (988 AD), the alleged \u201creunification\u201d of the Ukrainian Cossacks with the Russian Czar (1654), the creation of the Ukrainian soviet republic by Lenin (1922), Nikita Khrushchev&#8217;s gifting of the Crimean Peninsula from the Russian to the Ukrainian soviet republic (1954) and many more. The impact of all of these events is still being felt right now.<\/p>\n<p>In our analysis, we avoid the trap of black-and-white thinking, where everything Ukrainian is \u201cgood\u201d and everything Russian is \u201cevil\u201d. Instead, we examine the events and their consequences critically and objectively \u2013 including the Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany under the nationalist leader Stepan Bandera and its participation in the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>Using meticulously researched photo, image and film material from the Ukrainian and Soviet archives \u2013 including feature film scenes which help to illustrate events which took place long ago and debunk the propaganda lies of both sides \u2013 as well as recently filmed interviews with internationally renowned experts, we trace the changeable and peculiar history of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Our interviewees include the best-selling author and Yale professor Timothy Snyder, Russian history blogger Tamara Eidelman, whose YouTube sessions draw an audience of millions in Eastern Europe, the renowned expert of Eastern European history Andreas Kappeler from Switzerland, as well as the award-winning Ukrainian film-maker Sergei Loznitsa. In addition, graphs and charts are used to illustrate the geographical and temporal connections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fight is here&#8221; \u2013 with these words Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the world at the outset of the Russian invasion in February 2022. This fight, this battle between two different historical narratives, has been ongoing for far longer than two years however, it has been raging for centuries.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243; disable_custom_paddings_mobile=&#8221;true&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1590585294391{padding-right: 70px !important;padding-left: 60px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<strong>Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisma.de\/news\/tv\/Blackbox-Ukraine-Kampf-um-die-Geschichte-Alle-Infos-zur-Reportage,51023674\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>&#8220;Rarely has a film title been as fitting as this: &#8216;A Nation Denied &#8211; Ukraine&#8217;s Battle For History&#8217; &#8230; comprehensive and profound documentary.&#8221;<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nprisma.de[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<strong>Distribution<\/strong><br \/>\nBettina Offermann<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:distribution@looks.film\">distribution@looks.film<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;20px&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<strong>Excecutive Producer<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/looks.film\/en\/ceo-reginabouchehri\/\">Regina Bouchehri<\/a><br \/>\nBirgit Rasch<br \/>\nGunnar Dedio<\/p>\n<p><strong>A co-production by<br \/>\n<\/strong>LOOKSfilm, MDR<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors &amp; Directors<\/strong><br \/>\nAndreas Fauser, Dirk Schneider<\/p>\n<p><strong>Creative Producer<\/strong><br \/>\nAndreas Fauser[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content&#8221;][vc_column disable_custom_paddings_mobile=&#8221;true&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1592215547923{padding-left: 70px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,164,179,203,202,196],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A NATION DENIED - Ukraine&#039;s Battle For History - LOOKSfilm<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Russia&#039;s war against Ukraine is also a war on historical truths. 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