Dovzhenko hopes that with his work he can convince Europeans how to treat their eastern neighbor
Producers are now preparing the Ukrainian feature film “Bucha” for screening at the Berlin Film Festival, which this year will be held from February 15 to 25. The performer of the main negative role, Vyacheslav Dovzhenko, exclusively told Telegraph about how he prepared for this role and how this character is similar to Girkin.
“If we take a stereotype, then this is, to a certain extent, Girkin. Now he is sitting in a Moscow prison and that’s where he belongs. If you remember 2014, when they just entered the territory of Ukraine, he positioned himself as such a White Guard lieutenant. And then 2022, when he sat and criticized his government. He wasn't like that anymore. His ideology, in a certain way, failed him. But if we take it in general, my character is more of a composite. It also contains prototypes of white officers from Soviet films,” says Vyacheslav Dovzhenko.
According to the actor, European audiences still live in illusions about our eastern neighbor. Therefore, the artist’s main task in this case was to show that such an idea as fascism or racism is nonsense in society and how this ideology destroys from within a being that can be called a person. How much it turns a person into an animal and that he then poses a threat to people.