A film about Bessarabians deported to Novosibirsk and Tomsk regions will be made by TVR Iași and OWN TV Studio Moldova. Accounts of deportees and their descendants were collected within the fifth edition of the project “Memory expeditions” at the end of September.
Film director Violeta Gorgos, in a news conference at IPN on October 1, said the film will have two episodes, one with stories collected in Novosibirsk and another one with those collected in Tomsk. “Our propagandists are mainly our generation, the descendants of the third generation,” she stated.
According to the director, some of the protagonists of the expedition, after learning about their roots, try to regain Moldovan nationality, while others to learn the Romanian language in the Siberian area. Novosibirsk City is full of works by deported Bessarabian sculptor Sandu Bortnic, which shows that he was a valuable personality. It won’t be a documentary, but a board journal with expeditioners’ impressions. “Each story deserves a separate film. But we do not aim to do this. We intend to discover. Possibly someone else will borrow the idea, the subject and will dig deeper,” stated Violeta Gorgos.
OWN TV Studio director Virgiliu Mărgineanu said this year’s edition of the project was special. There were more protagonists that they hoped. “Initially, we planned to make a film. Then we decided to make two films. I’m sure there is material for three films. Each protagonist of the deportations with whom we met deserves a documentary about them,” stated the director.
Hiostorian Octavian Ţâcu said that as part of the next year’s expedition they will go again to Tomsk because it is a region with absolutely unique academic and instructive exploration potential.
The film is to be finished at the start of next year.
A group of historians and students during 12 days had visited two regions of Siberia, Novosibirsk and Tomsk, to collect facts about the lives of Bessarabians deported in 1941, 1949 and 1951 as part of the fifth edition of the project “Memory expeditions”. The results were presented on October 1. The project “Memory expeditions” was initiated in 2013. Two memory expeditions to Kazakhstan, one expedition to Irkutsk and another one to Krasnoyarsk have been organized so far.
