Anton Dolin in Germany. Cinema and fairy tales from 1 to 5 March 2024

Cinema has always been a way for viewers to console themselves and escape from an uncomfortable reality into a parallel one, in which everything is possible, magic and fantasy dictate their own laws, and a happy ending is always looming on the horizon, because these are the eternal laws of the genre. About a hundred years ago people watched "The Golden Key” and "The Wizard of Oz”, later – "The Extraterrestrial” and "Guest from the Future”, today – Marvel films and "Cheburashka”...

Film critic Anton Dolin, who has been studying the theory and practice of the author's fairy tale for the third decade, uses this philological and film studies methodology to explore modern cinema, which copes with large-scale traumas of society in the same way as literature and theater did in ancient times - by telling fairy tales. Using the material of films of the last two years, he will talk about politics, censorship, war, those events that so influence the lives of many of us and are thus transformed, passing through the filter of the most ancient genre - fairy tales.

At the meeting, Anton Dolin will answer questions from the audience and also present his latest book about modern cinema, "Fairy Tales”.