The ultimate price of state secrets

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The ultimate price of state secrets
01/12/2005 13:48
A stunning European film premier marks the beginning of 2005.

PRAVDA.Ru's exclusive interview with the filmmaker.

Jean-Michel Carre's latest documentary entitled "Kursk: A Submarine in Troubled Waters" proved to be a huge success after its premier on French television on January 6th 2005. The film presents an alternative account of the Kursk tragedy while attempting to unveil a curtain of secrecy.

Pravda.Ru is honored to be the first newspaper to ever come up with the version which has become the basis for the film. The article "World War III Could Brake Out on Sunday" first appeared on the Pravda.Ru's website on August 22nd, 2000. In it, it was baldly stated that the collision of Russian and American submarines could have resulted in the worst political crisis ever to occur between the two countries. "On Sunday 12th August an incident occurred in the Barents Sea which almost led to the start of a third world war. For several days the world hung on a thread and a political faux-pa could have led to an exchange of nuclear strikes," read the article. It is also quite noteworthy to mention that back then hardly anyone paid any attention to the publication. However, as the film demonstrates, the topic remains relevant nowadays.


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Jill Emery: The purpose of the film.was to make people aware of the fact that everything is not always what we are shown at face value, that authorities and the press don"t always tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth even if they are wearing military outfits or are prime ministers etc. That we live in a complex world where the reason of state is often predominant and more important than individual lives. This is the same in every country in the world. When the Americans lied about the weapons of mass destruction, about Saddam Hussein being responsible for 11/9, it was the epiphany of diplomatic lies, there was Vietnam, the Cuban Crisis, so many other moments in history we know about and there are hundreds more hidden secrets we know nothing about.

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