I have seen this documentary twice, and I'd love to watch it again and again. It's a mesmerizing, full of details, thought provoking film. The director managed to incorporate important background historical information and did so in the most skillful way.
"The Russian woodpecker" is an example of a masterful documentary: it's a true investigation (with interviews, work in the archives, site visits, etc), incorporation of real-time events (revolution in Ukraine broke out during work on this film), and addition of artistic details that better convey the personality of the main character Fedor.
After participating in several Q&A sessions with the director and the crew I learned a lot of interesting information. I saw for myself how genuine they were about making a high quality documentary, and how surprised they were to see it morph into this almost incredible theory about Chornobyl disaster as they researched more and more.
The most important to me is that they are themselves skeptical of the theory as the lack of official documents (a lot of them still being in secret archives in Moscow) prevents them from making definite conclusions. On the other hand, they invite the international community to continue the investigation and finally find the truth behind this terrible catastrophe.
I really hope that this great documentary will inspire new official international investigation so the world will know the truth. Watch this film if you get a chance - you'll learn so much and you'll be inspired to question the world around you! Bravo!
"The Russian woodpecker" is an example of a masterful documentary: it's a true investigation (with interviews, work in the archives, site visits, etc), incorporation of real-time events (revolution in Ukraine broke out during work on this film), and addition of artistic details that better convey the personality of the main character Fedor.
After participating in several Q&A sessions with the director and the crew I learned a lot of interesting information. I saw for myself how genuine they were about making a high quality documentary, and how surprised they were to see it morph into this almost incredible theory about Chornobyl disaster as they researched more and more.
The most important to me is that they are themselves skeptical of the theory as the lack of official documents (a lot of them still being in secret archives in Moscow) prevents them from making definite conclusions. On the other hand, they invite the international community to continue the investigation and finally find the truth behind this terrible catastrophe.
I really hope that this great documentary will inspire new official international investigation so the world will know the truth. Watch this film if you get a chance - you'll learn so much and you'll be inspired to question the world around you! Bravo!