Olga Yakovleva

Russia

Olga Yakovleva

director, producer

The Key to the Clockwork Orange

The confrontation between FA and AFA started in the early 2000s. It was a reaction to the appearance of skinheads-nationalists practicing the cult of the Third Reich and aggressively cracking down the undesirable people in Moscow and then in other Russian cities. In response, there was formed ANTIFA, the movement which tried to resist the domination of Nazi-skinheads in Russian streets. During this youth street war of 2000s dozens of young people were killed, hundreds were set to prison and thousands got injured.Our protagonists are four young people, the representatives of fascist and antifascist views.War between FA and ANTIFA had no strategy aims or the single command. It was a subculture war the main front of which was music. This war was led by very similar young people who didn’t fit into the social structure of contemporary Russian society. Nowadays, when young people grew up, and the Russian government has conducted a campaign of repressions against both sides, the activity of street confrontation almost came to naught, but the fire didn’t extinguished, it went underground but still proliferating and spreading to new social strata. And what’s important, the matured young people discovered new perspectives and new confrontation means of struggle.
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