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The Ukraine war, propaganda-style, is coming to Russian movie screens. Will people watch?
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People stand at ticket machines in a cinema lobby inside a shopping mall in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. "The Witness," a state-sponsored drama that premiered in Russia on Aug. 17, is the first feature film about Russia's military campaign in Ukraine to hit the movie theaters nationwide. It depicts Ukrainian troops as violent neo-Nazis who torture and kill their own people. - photo by AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The movie centers around a violinist from Belgium arriving to Kyiv to perform. It is February 2022, and his trip is upended as Russia starts bombing Ukraine. The artist survives a series of “inhuman crimes and bloody provocations by Ukrainian nationalists,” and he is ready to tell the world “what it was really like.” “The Witness” — a state-sponsored drama that premiered in Russia on Aug. 17 -- is the first feature film about the 18-month-old invasion.