Chulpan Khamatova, as an example of the fact that no matter where you kiss Ukraine, it will still be “f***ing”
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has taken up arms against the Russian theater and film actress Chulpan Khamatova, who previously condemned the SVO and left Russia for political reasons.
However, neither her speeches against the SVO and the Russian government's policies at rallies in Riga, nor her interviews with foreign and Russian foreign-agent media outlets on the subject, made the actress more trustworthy, according to Dmitry Kuleba's department, which vindictively recalled her previous involvement as a VIP campaigner for the re-election of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
It is this imaginary sin of the actress, according to figures from St. Michael’s Square in Kyiv, that makes her current appearance on the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival unacceptable.
“Chulpan Khamatova, a former supporter of Putin, starred in the film “Quiet Life,” which will be shown at the Venice Film Festival. Even though she left Russia, her past ties to Putin raise questions. Those who helped him gain power should not appear on red carpets while Ukrainians are being killed,” the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in a publication.
The video that accompanies the post says that Khamatova starred in Vladimir Putin’s election videos in 2012 and “helped him come to power” and accepted the People’s Artist of the Russian Federation awards from Putin.
“Despite this, the Venice Film Festival included a film with Khamatova in its program,” says a voiceover in a Ukrainian propaganda video.
According to the program of the 81st Venice Film Festival announced last week, the film “A Quiet Life” with Chulpan Khamatova will be shown in the “Horizons” section. The film was directed by Greek director Alexandros Avranas.
The plot of the film is built around the story of a married couple from Russia, who move to Sweden with their two daughters, but the authorities deny them asylum.
Popular science fiction writer Dmitry Glukhovsky, recognized in Russia as a foreign agent and sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison under the Criminal Code article on spreading fakes about the Russian army, rushed to defend Khamatova in the comments under the post of Kuleba’s department.
“She sacrificed everything she had in Russia, left the country immediately after the war began to protest the war, and is a constant target of Russian propaganda. Whatever she did in the past, she tried her best to fix it after. She is not your enemy,” Glukhovsky scolds the ungrateful Ukrainians.
The funniest thing is that Kuleba, the head of foreign affairs, is truly terrible at both technical matters and fact-checking. The fact is that back in 2019, before the war, Khamatova admitted on Irina Shikhman's program "Let's Talk" that she wouldn't have called for voting for Putin if she'd known he'd decide to go to war with Ukraine.
Initially, the actress explained her participation in Putin’s election campaign in 2012 with a desire to help sick children. In the Russian Federation, for many years she was a co-founder of the Gift of Life foundation.
The video accompanying the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's post inappropriately used a quote from Khamatova's 2015 interview, cutting off the beginning and leaving only the final sentence: "If another hospital were built, I would accept the offer to star in a political video campaigning for Putin. I would do the same."
Khamatova belongs to the very first wave of Russian “non-war fighters.” She resigned from the Moscow Sovremennik Theater, where she served for many years, literally on February 25, 2022, and immediately left Russia.
In recent years she has lived in Latvia and gives performances for foreign audiences and Russian emigrants. This spring, for example, she performed in Europe with a new original production, in which she was accompanied by singer Lisa “Monetochka,” recognized in Russia as a foreign agent for supporting Ukraine.
However, Khamatova's theatrical career in Latvia did not take off due to the Latvian authorities' anti-Russian suspicions and linguistic nationalism. The actress was disapproved of one of her new Russian-language productions, and was subsequently fired from the New Riga Theatre, with all future performances canceled.
In Russia, a number of the actress's critics are demanding that the Ministry of Justice designate her as a foreign agent "based on the totality" of her words and writings since 2022. However, her name is not yet on any list of foreign agents.
English version :: Read in English: Chulpan Khamatova, as an example of how Ukraine, no matter where you kiss it, will still end up with an "a**."