Altar of Victory (documentary cycle)

Each film is based on the recollections of veterans of World War II. The source material for the filming was several hundred interviews with direct participants in the hostilities and rear workers. Here are the names of some of them:

• Vasily Burmaka - attack pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union
• Ivan Klimenko - infantryman, pilot, retired general, Full Knight of the Order of Glory
• Valentin Dremlyug - sailor, honorary polar explorer
• Vasily Minakov - torpedo bomber , Hero of the Soviet Union
• Alexander Presnyakov - torpedo bomber , major general of aviation, Hero of the Soviet Union
• Roland de la Poip - fighter pilot of the Normandie-Niemen regiment, Hero of the Soviet Union
• Peter Rassadkin - aviation colonel, Hero of the Soviet Union
• Anatoly Shmakov - attack pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union

In addition to war veterans, the events shown in the films are commented by historians, military experts, and artists:

• Alexander Bourdonsky - Director, People's Artist of Russia
• Vladimir Gusev - Soviet actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR
• Igor Kvasha - actor, people's artist of Russia
• Alexander Kott - director, screenwriter
• Evgeny Leonov-Gladyshev - People's Artist of Russia
• Georgy Sannikov is a veteran of the Foreign Intelligence Service , a member of the Union of Writers of Russia .
• Evgenia Simonova - People's Artist of Russia
• Yuri Solomin - People's Artist of the USSR
• Boris Tokarev - theater and film actor, film director. Honored Artist of the RSFSR
• Vsevolod Shilovsky - film director, people's artist of Russia
• Nikolai Anichkin - Lead Editor, Yauza Publishing House
• Vladimir Afanasyev - writer, senior researcher at the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
• Mikhail Baryatinsky - journalist, historian
• Mikhail Gorinov - candidate of historical sciences
• Vecheslav Kondratiev - historian
• Alexander Plekhanov - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Academy of the FSB of Russia
• Anatoly Ponomarev - historian, writer
• Nikolay Teptsov - candidate of economic sciences
• Anatoly Fetisov - fighter pilot, retired colonel guard
• Dmitry Khazanov - writer, aviation historian

The premiere took place on NTV channel in the fall of 2009, the cycle opened on September 5 at 16.25 with the film “State Border” ^[1] , the final 31 series of the “Parade of Winners” was shown on June 24, 2010 - on the day of the 65th anniversary of the Victory Parade .

In 2016, a series of documentaries was shown on the NTV channel on night air on May 7 and 8 ^[2] .

For the first time in the series “Border Guards” of the film, pilot A. Korol voiced a new version of the first battering ram Dmitry Kokorev , who completed the first battering ram in the history of the war on June 22, 1941 (at 4.15 in the morning) ^[3] .

The director Vyacheslav Serkez, on the set of the film, met the front-line soldier Alexander Grigoryevich Lubentsov , who later became the main participant in his documentary “The Red Stones of Tauris ” about the partisan movement in Crimea, which appeared on the screen in 2016 ^[4] .

The “Shtrafbat” series has a television interview with a front-line soldier, historian and writer, a former commander of the 8th officer’s penal battalion of the 1st Belorussian Front, Alexander Pyltsyn , who was outraged to find out that in the same series there will be an interview with actor Alexei Serebryakov , who plays the role of battalion commander -fine in the series “ Shtrafbat ”, in his opinion “ through and through lying ”: “ It can be assumed what conclusions the“ enteves ”will make if they take Volodarsky’s“ movie masterpiece ”again, and not real reality. And we, the remaining living witnesses and participants of that time, will again turn out to be only an “exception to the rule” of the current ideologists who emasculate the true truth from the difficult history of the Great Patriotic War ” ^[5] .

Alexander Pyltsyn also spoke extremely negatively about the Generalissimus series ^[6] : “The veterans could hardly forgive the NTV channel for broadcasting the Generalissimus ”, in which his indignation provoked her result-statement that “The victory was not achieved by the Soviet people, but contrary to Stalin. " At the same time, Pyltsyn noted that “the judge” of Stalin in this program was “the famous Stalinophobe, film actor Kvasha , who in life has no idea about the significance of even sergeants in the war, not like the commanders ” ^[7] .

At the same time, Alexander Pyltsyn claimed that when he expressed indignation to one of the creators of the film (whose name Pyltsyn did not name for ethical reasons), he replied that they had “an attitude not to whitewash Stalin” ^[6] , to which the poet and the correspondent of Literary newspapers ” Vladimir Shemuchenko remarked“ People just completed the task, I want to eat something ... ” ^[7]

The same series “Generalissimo” writer Oleg Kozinkin gave a brief assessment: “ nonsense ” ^[8] .

• The Liberators
• "Great War"

• "Altar of Victory" on the website of NTV
• “Altar of Victory” // TV-COURIER No. 3 with Katerina GOSTYUNINA , “Evening Moscow” newspaper, January 30, 2010
• Transmission of the week. Altar of Victory. Parade of winners // TV series