SAINT PETERSBURG, May 4. /Dunyo IA/. In Saint Petersburg, a screening of the feature film “You Are Not an Orphan” was organized by the Consulate General of Uzbekistan with the support of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University ahead of the Day of Remembrance and Honor, reports Dunyo IA correspondent.

The event took place in the “Semyonov” Conference Hall and was attended by professors, lecturers, students, and members of the Uzbek diaspora.

The screening was opened by University Vice-Rector Dmitry Arseniev, who highlighted the real-life heroism of Uzbek blacksmith Shoakhmad Shomakhmudov and his wife Bahri Akramova, who took in and raised 14 children of different nationalities evacuated to Tashkent during the war. He emphasized that the film is about humanity, compassion, and responsibility beyond national borders.

Consul of the Consulate General, Kabul Alimov, expressed gratitude to the university for its support and shared background information about the film’s creation. Speaking about facts from his personal experience of communicating with members of the family of the author of the novel “His Majesty Man” Rahmat Fayzi and the director of the film “You Are Not an Orphan” Shukhrat Abbasov, he drew the audience’s attention to the history of the film’s creation, encouraged viewers to engage more deeply with its content during the screening, and created an appropriate emotional atmosphere.

During the screening, a special atmosphere of empathy prevailed in the hall. After the film ended, the audience responded with prolonged applause.

Tatyana Zemlinskaya, Deputy Director of the Institute of Humanities and a lecturer at the Higher School of International Relations, noted that she had watched the film several times, and each time it evokes deep emotional feelings, as the story directly affected her own family during the Second World War.

Vedant Gupta, a student from India at the Institute of Metallurgy, Mechanical Engineering and Transport, also thanked the organizers for the opportunity to engage with the history of the peoples of Russia and Uzbekistan and to personally witness examples of heroism, selflessness, and compassion of the Uzbek people.