A charity run on Crimean Tatar movie “Haytarma” depicting the deportation of 1944 took place at “Pravda-Kino” Cinema in Dnipropetrovsk. All the funds raised are to be given to support the Crimean Tatar TV-Channel ATR. The audience rose in applause after the movie was over; many people were crying.
Ms. Olha Chervonaya, the Dnipropetrovsk citizen, said: “I heard some stories on deportation before, but I just couldn’t imagine how it happened. So many lives broken, so many pain, grief and suffering… And today the Crimean Tatars act like real patriots of their Homeland.”
“All the funds raised today are to be given to support the Crimean Tatar TV-Channel ATR. This is our only channel that continues telling the truth about the things going on in Ukraine and in Crimea,” - the cinema mistress Ms. Victoria Hartyanova said.
Singing the Anthem of Ukraine became the high tide of the charity run.
It bears reminding that the Crimeans don’t stay indifferent and try to support the ATR as much as they can, transfering money to the channel’s bank account.
Note: “Haytarma” movie depicts tradical date of the Crimean Tatar history, May 18, 1944, when Stalin deported the whole Crimean Tatar people. The main character Mr. Amethan Sultan, a pilot, twice hero of the Soviet Union. More than 1,000 people from all over Crimea took part in filming the crowd scenes of deportation, many of them witnessed this tragedy themselves. This is the first full-length film created by the ATR production studio. The play opened almost a year ago, on the eve of 69th anniversary of Crimean Tatars deportation.
