%0 Journal Article
%T Je me souviens de tout, Richard (Rolands Kalni  , Studio de Riga, 1967) : une manifestation pr¨¦coce d'une m¨¦moire concurrente de la Grande Guerre patriotique I Remember Everything, Richard (Rolands Kalni  , Riga Film Studio, 1967): A Precocious Manifestation of a Competing Memory with the Great Patriotic War
%A Juliette Denis
%A Irina Tcherneva
%J Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies
%D 2012
%I Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur les Soci¨¦t¨¦s et les Institutions Post-Sovi¨¦tiques
%X It is usually said that the memory of the war period had been completely reversed in the former Soviet borderlands since the collapse of the USSR, turning former ¡°traitors¡± into heroes or victims. However, attempts to set up a new approach of the Nazi occupation and collaboration are rooted in the ¡°Thaw¡± period. I remember everything, Richard ¨C dealing with the Latvian legion, started to be considered in 1957. That coincided both with the massive return of the Latvian deportees from Siberia, and with a renewal of trials against war criminals. Produced only in 1966, the film reflected the social tensions going along with the sensitive topic, and presented a point of view far more nuanced than the official figure of the ¡°Latvian traitor¡± imposed during the Stalinist period. Based on interviews, archival material and film analysis, this article aims at understanding through the film-making process the connection between the deep changes of the political meaning of the war period, and the social composition of film production.
%K Great Patriotic War
%K Memory
%K Cinema
%K Soviet Union
%K Latvia
%K History
%U http://pipss.revues.org/3875