By “difficult period” he means the last 500 years. https://news.sky.com/story/russia-victory-day-parade-vladimir-putin-warns-combat-forces-always-ready-13132022
Movie premieres seem to mostly be people standing around not knowing exactly what to do or where to go.
I wonder what our ancestors, who spent all day doing back-breaking labor, would think about how much effort we out into basically nothing.