HAYTARMA
80 Years after WWII
Ahmet Khan Sultan, a Red Army pilot twice decorated for his heroism in the Great Patriotic War, returns, on leave from the front, to his hometown of Alupka in May 1944. There he witnesses the deportation of the Crimean Tartars – including his own family. HAYTARMA (“return” in English) is at once the first Crimean-Tartar film and the first feature film about this tragedy. Approximately 280,000 Crimean Tartars have returned to the Crimean Peninsula since the 1990s. Alas, for many of them Russia’s annexation of the territory has meant a resurgence of armed conflict and repression.
Ahmet Khan Sultan, a Red Army pilot twice decorated for his heroism in the Great Patriotic War, returns, on leave from the front, to his hometown of Alupka in May 1944. There he witnesses the deportation of the Crimean Tartars – including his own family. HAYTARMA (“return” in English) is at once the first Crimean-Tartar film and the first feature film about this tragedy. Approximately 280,000 Crimean Tartars have returned to the Crimean Peninsula since the 1990s. Alas, for many of them Russia’s annexation of the territory has meant a resurgence of armed conflict and repression.
