Notes of a True Criminal (Zapiski nastoyashego prestupnika)

After a 31-year hiatus, world-renowned producer Alexander Rodnyansky returns to documentary filmmaking with Notes of a True Criminal. Born in Kyiv, he was sentenced in absentia by a Russian court to eight and a half years in prison for his anti-war stance. In this film, he contemplates key events in Ukraine’s history and how they have affected him and his family; including the referendum on Ukraine’s independence, the mass execution of Jews at Babyn Yar, and the Soviet authorities’ attempt to erase the memory of this tragedy, Chernobyl, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Germany, and, of course, the war – the full-scale invasion by the Russian army. The author’s narrative is not focused on the events themselves, but on people, human destinies, and art.