{"id":920,"date":"2007-12-10T15:24:34","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T14:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timeprints-film.de\/?p=920"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:59:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:59:03","slug":"the-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timeprints-film.de\/en\/the-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Operation<\/h1>\n<\/div>

Germany | 2007 | 37 Minutes<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Russia in 2007: a country on the road to a police state and dictatorship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

A small Siberian town is the victim of a brutal police raid lasting 4 days. Nobody knows why. The film traces the reasons and consequences of the events and, focusing on the small town of Blagoveschensk, shows a conflict that is affecting the whole of Russia today: politics on the way to a police state – citizens on the way to civil society.<\/p>\n

When the OMON special task force pulls up in front of the “Pharaoh” bar in the centre of Blagoveschensk, a town of 30,000 inhabitants, on Saturday, 10 December 2004, it is eyed curiously by the queuing shoppers from the nearby kiosk. The reactions are all the more irritated when, 5 minutes later, all the male visitors to the bar are brutally beaten into the lorry, along with a few of the most curious onlookers themselves.<\/p>\n

The film traces the various portrayals of the events and – giving both sides a voice – shows the “cold war” between the fronts that is still smouldering a year later. Interviews, archive material and observations create a picture of a small Russian town that is typical in many respects. The example shows how the political leadership, in growing fear of a possible “velvet”, “orange” or “pink” revolution in its own country, is taking increasingly repressive action against its own citizens. The film observes the protagonists of the conflict – without condemning them – as they choose between adaptation and civil courage.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Credits<\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Author & Director:<\/strong> Kerstin Nickig
\nProducer:<\/strong>\u00a0Michael Truckenbrodt
\nDoP:<\/strong> Eugen Schlegel, Michal Tywoniuk<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Editor:<\/strong> Ralf Ilgenfritz
\nMusic:<\/strong> Die Vierte Variante
\nProduction Company:<\/strong> TIME PRINTS<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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