| Summary: | Various studies of cultural (supra-individual) memory, united by the name "memory studies", at the present stage are interdisciplinary in nature, based on the achievements of various humanities, expanding their subject field in chronological, geographical and thematic aspects. One of the youngest areas of memorial research is the cinema memory, in the framework of which the art of cinema is understood as a medium, custodian and "vehicle" of cultural memory. This article discusses issues related to the specifics of the formation and regulation of memorial content by means of cinema in the framework of the implementation of the Russian state cultural policy in general and politics of memory in particular; the results of a study of Russian commemorative films created with the support of the state (the "Cinema Fund"), their quantitative (specific weight among the total number of supported films, financial profitability) and qualitative (themes, genre affiliation, temporal orientation) parameters are presented. The criteria for the commemorative nature of a particular film are: plot retrospectiveness, heroization (romanticization) of the past through the prism of an outstanding personality or significant event, the presence of an intention to elaborate the past with respect to ambiguous, tragic, crucial historical moments. Special attention is paid to the analysis of commemorative films created outside state support, as well as to the reasons for limiting the rental "history" of films that do not correspond to the ideological, value principles of modern Russian memory policy. Based on the study, it is concluded that the main task of the Russian state policy of memory, implemented in the field of cinema, is seen in the creation of a heroic picture of the past, forming feelings of patriotism, pride in the great Russian history. The indicated task is realized mainly by referring to outstanding historical figures, military, historical and biographical plots unfolding in the temporal space of the Soviet past and past, which we conventionally called "distant" (the time of the formation of Russian statehood, the formation of state borders, etc.).
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