Irkutsk Art Museum will hold the premiere of a documentary

June 24 on the official YouTube channel of the Irkutsk Regional Art Museum. V.P. Sukachev premiere of the documentary film "Zaitseva Gora. The tragedy of 1942 ", filmed by the creative studio" Altera ". The director of the picture was Irina Ternovaya, deputy director of the Irkutsk Art Museum for Science.

25-minute documentary “Zaitseva Gora. The tragedy of 1942 ”tells about one page of the Great Patriotic War that is little-known and terrible in its losses and is dedicated to the heroic feat of the Irkutsk people - soldiers of the 116th Transbaikal Rifle Division who died and went missing on Kaluga land in the spring of 1942. The film was shot in 2018-2019 in Irkutsk, Moscow, Kaluga, Kaluga and Smolensk regions. The film was based on historical research carried out both by the authors themselves - participants of the Altera creative group (I. I. Ternovaya, V. V. Altukhov), and received from employees of a number of museums and libraries in these cities. The filming was attended by members of the Siberian Shooter club, author and performer Dmitry Baryshnikov (Irkutsk).The collections of the Irkutsk Regional Art Museum named after V.P. Sukacheva. The new film became part of the film project "Irkutsk People in the Great Patriotic War."

The premiere of the film will take place at 12:00 local time on June 24 on the museum’s YouTube page (https://youtu.be/3DEZA03GKAM).

Recall that while the Irkutsk Art Museum is closed to visitors, in connection with the epidemic, until the abolition of the regime of self-isolation in the region.