Schmidt & Paetzel Fernsehfilme GmbH

2022, 89 min
by Artem Demenok

The struggle for survival of a city - not Kiev 2022 but Moscow 1941, when the Wehrmacht was closing to within a few miles, and countless volunteers threw themselves against it.From the perspective of this film, the epochal drama has never been seen before: a chorus of voices, recorded in letters, announcements, but above all secret diary entries. They reflect life in Moscow in the last months of peace and the first months of war - the whole year 1941.Breathtaking historical and psychological te

Germany 2016, 90 min
by Artem Demenok, Andreas Christoph Schmidt

Two parts in 45 min.THE FORGOTTEN CRIME: Hidden behind the crimes of World War 2, especially behind the Holocaust, there is another actrocity, nobody talks about and which threatens to disappear from our memory: The killing of more than 3.000.000 Soviet soldiers in German prison camps. Memories of the last survivors and pictures and short films shot by the perpetrators themselves document the tragedy. THE SOVIET HERITAGE talks about the war from a Russian perspective: the omnipresence of the 'Gr