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Sentsov-Angmyp.Pdf UDC 821.161.2 M61 Translator Julia Lugovska Graphic Designer Olena Huhalova-Mieshkova The “Folio” Publishing House would like to express its thanks to the movie producer of the movie company 435 FILMS Anna Palenchuk for the help she provided us within the course of preparation of this book. Printed on order Ministry of Information Policy of Ukraine FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION If you purchased this book, please contact us at: [email protected] Mymruk O. M61 Oleg Sentsov / Oleksandr Mymruk; Trans. J. Lugovska; Graphic Designer O. Huhalova-Mieshkova. — Kharkiv: “Folio”, 2018. — 396 p.: photos. ISBN 978-966-03-8393-7. There is probably no person nowadays who wouldn’t have heard the name of Oleg Sentsov, as his court trial was really a cause célèbre and his verdict was quite exceptional and unbelievably harsh: twenty years behind the bars. Movie director, screenwriter, and writer, he was accused of an apparent participation in the terrorist activities. And despite all the public protests and multiple addresses to the government of the country that accuses Sentsov, he still remains imprisoned. This book consists of the memoirs of people who knew Oleg very well, of the fragments of his books and film scenarios, and also of the extracts of the protocols of the testimonials of the witnesses in this totally fabricated case. This book also contains many photographs, both from the personal home archives of Sentsov and from the courtroom. However, as his friends and relatives claim, Sentsov never really liked talking about himself, but his work speaks for him, and first of all his autobiographical novels and essays. And right before he was arrested he wrote a book, and its name totally corresponds with its contents: “Buy this book, it’s a funny one”. This book was published by the “Folio” Publishing House both in Russian and in Ukrainian translation. A fight for the release of Oleg Sentsov continues. UDC 821.161.2 © O. Mymruk, 2017 © J. Lugovska, translation, 2018 ISBN 978-966-03-8393-7 © O. Huhalova-Mieshkova, graphic design, 2018 About Oleg Sentsov [ ■ ] One of the biggest challenges in writing Oleg’s bio­­­ graphy is that first of all he is actually a very inward person who keeps to himself. He is not that kind of a person who willingly shares with his friends and acquaintances the details of his past. That’s why the people whom I had the chance to interview about him don’t tell a lot about Sentsov’s “pre- movie” life. Many of them also became friends with Oleg after he stormed the Ukrainian film industry with his Gamer. Secondly, everything Oleg wanted to tell us about him­­ self is already written in various books and does not re- quire another story, description or repetition whatsoever. He has written several autobiographical novels, and one of them is even called “Autobiography”. Everyone who in one way or other follows the tragic developments of the life of Crimean movie director definitely knows about his literary estate too. Literature is probably one of the simplest and the least expensive manners of self-expression. Unlike the cinema, which is very a very synthetic art requiring lots of resources, the art of writing doesn’t need any additional means and tools in order “to start”. One needs only a sheet of paper, a pen, and one’s own mind. At the end of the day, every movie also starts from the script, that’s why it’s not surprising that Oleg started his path to art direction from writing. [ 3 ] But as one of the tasks of this book is to show the important stages of the life of Oleg Sentsov I cannot refrain from saying a couple of words about and giving an update on the period of Oleg’s growing up and personality development. Although the name of Oleg Sentsov is closely connected with the city of Simferopol, where he spent a significantly huge part of his life, he actually was born in another place. Oleg’s birthplace is the village Skaliste of Bakhchisaray district. That was the place, where the future movie director drew his first breath in the family of the driver Gennadiy Oleksiyovich Sentsov and the nursery governess Lyudmila Grygoriivna Sentsova. The village Skaliste is quite big. According to the latest all Ukrainian population census, nearly three thousand people reside in this village. There are the cities in Ukraine with the population that doesn’t exceed this number. It is obvious that the name “Skaliste”, “Rocky” in Ukrainian, comes from the village’s geo graphical location. The village lays not far from the second ridge of the Crimean Mountains, not far from the medieval settlement, the cave city of Bakly. It is hard to say, whether the local residents trace the history of their town to this ancient settlement, but the village Skaliste is quite popular and very well known among the caves researchers and the fans of extreme sports. From “Childhood”: “When I was a little boy, I thought that the world’s size was just as I used to see and imagine it, which means that my world was basically limited to the line of the horizon. We used to live in the foothill region, so that line wasn’t really that far away, and the terrain was actually almost always elevated. That’s why it seemed that the world built up a big chalice, confined with the neighboring mountains, hills, and fields. It was the full and rich world, like a full cup of a child’s happiness”. [ 4 ] “I remember myself since I was very young. Sometim es it even seems to me that I can remember the people who leaned over me when I laid in that baby strol ler. However, now I tend to think that it was ra ther a memory of some fragment from some movie I’ve seen. I also felt my own personality when I was very young. I think I was about five years old. I remember I once ran a splinter into my hand, and I couldn’t get it out. One of my friends, and I really can’t remember now who that bastard was, just told me that that was actually the end, as the splinter in my finger would travel inside of my body, reach my heart, and then I will eventually die. My first bright and impressive child’s memory was the following: I was five years old; I went home from the kindergarten, wearing the sandals and shorts. I was walking up the hill, not far away from the village I am from. Somehow children tend to dislike the normal roads, they always make a beeline in the strangest places, and if the road goes straight, kids would definitely choose to just crawl in the bushes. So, I was walking, and it pretty high, and I could see the entire village in front of and under me, my kindergarten was left far behind me, a little farther to the left was the school, where I still haven’t been. And in my thoughts, I was silently telling goodbye to all of that, as I was preparing to die soon. The situation was mostly calm, a little bit tragic; the weather was a little windy. But I wasn’t crying. It had to happen just the way as it was supposed to be. I don’t know what happened next, I remember my early childhood years like in the flashbacks, but if I am still alive, it means that that splinter somehow missed my heart”. Crimea always existed at the crossroads of various cul tu- res. Its territory is a field of constant cooperation and inter- acting (and sometimes fight) of different influences, different [ 5 ] countries, and different perspectives. Starting from the first Ancient Greek settlements in this region and coming to the times of collapse of the two great empires (of the “white” one and the “red” one), Crimea constantly played a role of a “concentrator” of the ideas and senses. There is probably no other place in Ukraine, where the people of so many various nationalities could meet and coexist. Of course, we have Bessa rabia, we have Bukovina, we have Galicia, and in the course of their long history, all these regions were the parts of many different countries, and each of those countries left its unique mark on the local people’s mentality. But anyway, due to its geographical position, Crimean Peninsula always used to stay a little bit on the sidelines, as a completely unique case. And it probably makes a perfect sense that such an artist as Oleg Sentsov emerged in such a culturally diverse region. This openness to different influences, the fact that this region isn’t actually culturally entrenched only help the personal development of an artist. A specific worldview of Oleg Sentsov has been forming from these odd and segmental puzzles. It is worth mentioning that “gathering of the puzzles” together is a theme tune and a keynote of the entire bio- graphy of Oleg Sentsov. Each of the persons, who told some­­ thing about him during the interviews for this book, was able to present us only with a little particle of this “puzzle”. The general image of Oleg Sentsov as a real human being (as opposed to the image of the hero of the news headlines) developed at the intersection of these initially scattered and uncoordinated memoirs and testimonies. Natalya Kaplan: A cousin of Oleg Sentsov “I was four years old when my parents took me to Crimea and I saw Oleg for the first time.
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