Birth of the Russian "Great Mute" (1898–1917) It is known that the French brought the movies to Russia. It was at the beginning of 1896. However, many Russian photographers were able to quickly learn a new craft. Already in 1898, documentary plots were shot not only by foreign, but also by Russian operators. But still 10 years were before the appearance of Russian feature films. Only in 1908, director and entrepreneur Alexander Drankov made the first Russian film with actors under the title Ponizovaya Volnitsa (Stepan Razin)...

For a long time, the topic of Nazism / Fascism in cinema was presented in a certain genre palette – psychological dramas, adventure detectives and thrillers, satirical (The Great Dictator by Ch. Chaplin, for example) or lyrical (Heavenly Quiet Move) comedies prevailed. For quite a long time strict censorship bans – both in the West and in the USSR – did not allow the creators of films on the Nazi topic to turn this kind of media texts into a commercial product, naturalistically emphasizing the scenes of violence and sex...