A brand new Russian film tells the story of Russian pilot Lieut. Col. Oleg Anatolyevich Peshkov. “Sky” was lately screened within the Syrian metropolis of Aleppo. Peshkov was killed when his fighter jet was hit by a Turkish Air Drive missile and crashed in northern Syria six years in the past.
The film was first proven on the Hmeimim navy base on the anniversary of the pilot’s killing. In Aleppo, an viewers of Russian troopers and a few Russian nationals watched the movie in a free screening. Peshkov was the primary Russian pilot to be killed in Syria, since Russia’s navy intervention alongside the Syrian authorities in late September 2015. The premiere passed off on Nov. 21 at a movie show in Yekaterinburg.
“Sky” was directed by the Russian director Igor Kopylov and produced by Trix Media Movie Firm in cooperation with the Russian Ministry of Protection and with participation by the Russia-1 TV channel. Actor Igor Petrenko performs Peshkov and Ivan Batarev seems as Capt. Konstantin Murakhtin, the navigator. Sergey Gubanov performs Maj. Vadim Zakharov, a Russian particular operations soldier. Scenes had been shot in Crimea in late 2020 in addition to on the precise navy amenities in Syria and Russia, together with the Russian nationwide protection heart, the Lipetsk fighter pilot college and the Hmeimim navy in Syria.
Inessa Yurchenko, producer of Trix Media, stated at a press convention in Russia that “Sky” is the primary movie to inform the story of the Russian navy operations in Syria.
Syrian journalist and film director Yasser Badawi informed Al-Monitor that whereas he has not watched the movie, “The trailer can inform us that Russia’s objective in making the film, which is essentially the most highly effective artwork kind for propaganda, is to painting its troops in Syria as heroes and their humanitarian mission as a battle towards terrorism. Clearly, that’s not true. The slain pilot was flying a sophisticated warplane to goal hospitals and colleges and to kill 1000’s of youngsters and girls.” The viewers was restricted to sympathizers, he identified, to fan assist amongst fighters and their households.
He added that the movie depicts the pilot’s violent mission as noble, saying, “It units a harmful precedent and motivates administrators and manufacturing firms to work on such movies.”
Just a few months in the past one other Russian movie, “Palmyra,” informed a Dagestan physician whose daughter falls for a terrorist group’s propaganda and strikes to Syria. He embarks on a journey to save lots of her.The director, Ivan Bolotnikov, informed Sputnik that the ethical of the story is that saving the world begins with saving one man.
Mohammed al-Sukari, a researcher on the Istanbul-based Jusoor Heart for Research, informed Al-Monitor, “Russia is doing every thing it might to assist its discourse and coverage in Syria by distorting the primary targets that prompted Russia to intervene in Syria. It is sensible for Moscow to have translated the movie into Arabic to achieve the belief of a number of the Syrian folks to be able to shore up its affect, significantly since its position has modified and it’s taking part in mediator in southern and northeastern Syria. It additionally hopes that this movie will contribute to bettering its picture internationally as a rustic that helps human rights and defends worldwide stability.”
The Russian Sukhoi Su-24M aircraft was shot down by a Turkish fighter jet on Nov. 24, 2015, in northern Syria, and its pilot and navigator parachuted to the bottom. Peshkov was shot useless instantly by the opposition factions. The opposite pilot survived and Russian particular forces later rescued him and took him to Hmeimim.
4 days later, Russian President Vladimir Putin imposed economic sanctions on Turkey. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan apologized in late June for the incident.
In late November 2018, a Russian court docket convicted 9 Syrians in absentia of killing Peshkov. A commemorative plaque in his honor was put in on the Hmeimim base in late 2020 and a statue of the pilot was erected in February 2021.
