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After a group of citizens protested the announcement of the film "Lastavice Christove", which was announced on the website of Cineplexx in Podgorica since November 24, it was removed from the repertoire of cinemas, and Pobjeda was unofficially told that it would not be shown nor that it was planned to be shown in this multiplex.
Serbia and Montenegro represent a unique territory in terms of the distribution of cinema titles, and for this reason there was an error when entering the film in the announcement on the website of the cinema, since the film will be shown in Cineplexx cinemas in Serbia - Pobjeda was told.
A group of citizens of Podgorica announced yesterday that they are appalled by the news that starting next week, a film by Russian director Julia Bočarova called "Christ's Swallows" will be on the repertoire of Cineplexx cinemas.
This film was shown in Podgorica on November 1 in the Church of Christ's Resurrection in Podgorica, ending the "Days of Metropolitan Amfilohi" event organized by the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral.
The director said that the goal of the film was to show not only the scale of fateful events in Montenegro, but also to tell about the depth and beauty of the Orthodox Church through the history of the Serbian people and the personality of Metropolitan Amfilohi.
A film about the miraculous Archpastor, Metropolitan Amfilochius of Montenegro and the Littoral, a student of the elders Pajsi and Justin, about the flourishing of monasticism and spirituality, about the inner feat of an ordinary man and about the miracle that happened... - is one of the synopses.
Reacting to the announcement, a group of citizens pointed out in an open letter that Putin's propaganda platforms, at a time of increased political destabilization of Montenegro, which, according to the group of citizens of Podgorica, is managed from Moscow and Belgrade, are promoting a "false narrative about litigants, presenting them in the spirit of totalitarian ideologies , as an idyllic "reconciliation" of peoples.
In the announcements for the film, which is about Metropolitan Amfilohi and the Russian monks who came to Montenegro, it is written that at its center are the magnificent liturgies that sanctified Montenegro for new generations.
It is the narrative of "popular reconciliation" that is one of the mechanisms of ultra-right structures around the world, which try to impose revisionism as a new value. It is already clear today that the so-called litias marked a historic turning point for civil and secular society in Montenegro, "normalizing" discrimination, segregation, violence, messages of hatred towards any otherness, i.e. towards everyone who does not identify with the hegemonic ideology of the "Serbian world", thereby achieving continuity with political activity Belgrade patriarchates from the 90s of the 20th century inciting religious and national hatred, historical revisionism, inciting war crimes and genocide, and glorifying war criminals - it is written in the announcement of a group of citizens of Podgorica.
They pointed out that it is clear that propaganda films such as "The Swallows of Christ" have the role of affirming anti-civilizational values as promoted by Amfilohije Radović.
Bearing in mind the indisputable historical role of Amfilohi Radović, as one of the loudest promoters of hate speech, a person who at every step promoted xenophobia, historical revisionism, Islamophobia, homophobia, someone who called national Montenegrins "oxen" and "Đilas' bastard", Albanians " The citizens pointed out that he compared "shippers" and murderers, Muslims to "false people of a false religion", Western civilization to "satanic" and "criminal", and barren women to Nazi-fascists.
They said that they will not allow such messages to spread "without our clear and strong resistance".
M. J.
