The series about perestroika and the 1990s in Russia won the Bafta TV award

The mini-series directed by Adam Curtis “Russia 1985-1999: Trauma Zone” won one of the main European television awards Bafta TV. It is recognized as the best in the nomination of films based on real facts. The seven-part series tells about the recent history of Russia: the era of perestroika announced by Mikhail Gorbachev and the 1990s.

Adam Curtis is a British director and TV journalist who worked for the BBC. His series consists only of documentary footage, which is shown without commentary. Curtis shows in detail the process of fading and disintegration of the USSR and the years that followed until President Vladimir Putin came to power.

The publication “Meduza” published a long interview with Curtis. The director said that the film is based on documentary recordings left unclaimed in the Moscow office of the BBC.

“I wanted to show how difficult Russia is, and how difficult the 1990s were for the Russians themselves, and that Putin emerged from it,” Curtis said.

The premiere of the series took place in October 2022 on the BBC.

• Bafta is an award of the British Television Academy and the British Film Academy. The award is presented annually in London. Award ceremonies for film and television are not related to each other, they have different juries. In February of this year, the Bafta award, but not in the field of television, but in the field of cinematography, was awarded to the documentary “Navalny”, shot by the Canadian director Daniel Roer. The award was received in the nomination “Best Documentary”.