The image of a nurse in Soviet and post-Soviet cinema

Abstract

The article provides an analysis of the transformation in the film image of a nurse in the Soviet and post-Soviet times. The nursing staff is the most numerous in the entire hierarchy of physicians. Increasing the number of young people entering medical schools will greatly reduce the shortage of personnel in the industry, but it requires an increase in the status of a medical worker.

Cinema serves as a reliable tool for shaping public opinion, constructing it purposefully and systematically. The article shows that over the past decades, there has been a change in moral and ideological principles, attitudes of the professional group as well as the artistic image of the hero, his characteristic features are changing, and as a result, public opinion is also being transformed, following the cultural narrative in the form of cinema.

The author refers to the Soviet cinematographyin which heroes with high ideals and landmarks came to the fore. Over the next three decades, the image of the hero (medical worker) in the new Russia changed. The author gives a description of the storylines and characters of especially significant and popular films in order to understand how the audience sees the characters - nurses, and how, because of that public opinion can be influenced.