The Russian annexation of the territory from Ukraine, which led to sanctions and a fallout between Moscow and the west, was denounced internationally as illegal.
In Ukraine and elsewhere, however, the film is likely to be viewed as a glorification of the Russian annexation.
Not everyone in Crimea supported the annexation, however, with the majority of the peninsula’s indigenous Crimean Tatars opposing the move.
Pimanov, however, has no time for such comparisons: “A lot of people in the west don’t understand what happened in Crimea.