In Russia, banned the film "Death of Stalin"

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The Russian Ministry of Culture has revoked the distribution certificate issued to the British comedy film The Death of Stalin.

With a call to ban the exit of the picture on the screen in Russia were made by director Nikita Mikhalkov, many officials and deputies, writes with the BBC.

The Ministry explained that the rules for issuing distribution certificates allow them to be revoked if, during a “public demonstration of a film,” materials containing information, the distribution of which is prohibited by the legislation of the Russian Federation, were identified.”

The satirical comedy by British director Armando Ianucci, “The Death of Stalin,” was scheduled to be released on January 25. On January 22, the Ministry of Culture hosted a screening of the film, which was attended by filmmakers, State Duma deputies, as well as members of the public council under the ministry. Among the participants were director Nikita Mikhalkov, producer Leonid Vereshchagin and deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture Elena Drapeko.

On Tuesday, the head of the council, Yuri Polyakov, said that the premiere of “The Death of Stalin” could be postponed because the screening participants considered it offensive.

“The film “The Death of Stalin” is aimed at inciting hatred and enmity, humiliating the dignity of Russian (Soviet) people, promoting the inferiority of a person on the basis of his social and national identity, and these are signs of extremism,” representatives of the committee said in a letter sent to the Ministry of Culture. with a request to revoke the film's distribution license.

The authors of the appeal believe that Marshal Georgy Zhukov is presented in the film as “just a militant clown,” although in fact he was an “outstanding commander” and a “talented strategist.”

The statement of the participants also said that they considered the film a “libel” on the history of Russia as “evil and absolutely inappropriate, supposedly a comedy”, denigrating the memory of the winners of fascism.

The letter was signed by Mikhalkov, Polyakov, deputy Drapeko and director of the Karo-Premier film company Alexey Ryazantsev. Drapeko clarified that the signatories do not call for an immediate ban on the film, but first to conduct an additional examination, since, in their opinion, it contains elements of extremism.

“I have never seen more disgusting things, that is, never at all. This is an absolute libel,” said the State Duma deputy.

The film “The Death of Stalin” (co-production of Britain and France) was filmed on the comics of the French by Fabien Nouri and Thierry Robin. The main heroes of the film were Nikita Khrushchev, played by Steve Bushemi, Vasily Stalin (Rupert Friend), George Zhukov (Jason Isaacs), and pianist Maria Yudina (played by actress Olga Kurylenko).

The world premiere of the film took place at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2017.

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