Ukraine / 2022 / 60 min / English / Documentary
The film “The Address On The Wall” by Serge Krutsenko has been positively marked at various recent film festivals. Namely, the motion picture has received a prize at the Wallachia Film Festival in the Feature Movies category. This award largely serves a tribute to the late director and composer Serge Krutsenko who sadly passed away in the beginning of 2023.
Being a docudrama parable, which is an artistic study of human nature, the film researches the reasons of a sudden change which turns a doctor or a builder, a musician or an actor, into a murderer, a fascist capable of killing another human being. How can one person murder their own kind only for the racial differences? This is what happened at Babyn Yar in Kyiv in 1941. The film became a core of the International Humanistic Project “The Address On The Wall”…
So far, the motion picture has been marked at 16 film festivals. The list is far from being final, however, and it will definitely be expanded.They say that truth is stranger than fiction and the fate writes the script better than any author. “The Address on the Wall” was finalized only after being altered by Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine. This changed the lives of many European countries and radically destroyed the romantic imagination of what could happen to humanity in the beginning of the twenty-first century. Connecting the Babyn Yar massacre with the current tragedy, the film is a reflection on the past, and, at the same time, evidence of what is happening now.
DIRECTORS: Serge (Serhiy) Krutsenko, who left this world on 7 January 2023, was a multi-instrumental performer, a composer, a music producer, a film producer, and a specialist in 3D (Stereo) shooting. He worked with almost all Ukrainian top music stars as a music producer, and he also had a large number of films as a composer. Serhiy debuted as a film director in 2021 in the film “The Address on The Wall”. Being research in the phenomenon of the destruction of person by another person, the motion picture is a unique combination of his talents and inspiration. Worrying about his native Ukraine in these hard times, Serhiy Krutsenko suffered greatly and at the same time, he believed in the victory of love over hatred, so the film is a tribute to his memory.
DIRECTOR STATEMENT: What is the civilization worth, along with the mechanisms of its security that cannot instantly stop murder, rape, and torture at the beginning of the 21st century in the center of Europe? This is what I have been asking myself these days. When I chose the theme of the Babyn Yar tragedy and began shooting this film, I believed that it would be a parable and thoughts on the past in the form of a staged motion picture perfectly narrated by the famous Israeli actor Alex Anski, as well as thoughts about the history against the background of a blooming and beautiful city – the modern and peaceful Kyiv. However, it wasn’t to be. Fate in the truest sense of the meaning changed the form of the film. Because what seemed to be the past that had forever remained in the chronicles and that cannot be repeated in the conditions of the modern civilization has turned out to be relevant.
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