Pussy versus Putin

Pussy vs. Putin
Genre Documentary
Created by Gogol's Wives [1]
Screenplay by Gogol's Wives
Directed by Gogol's Wives
Ilya Zaslavsky
Starring Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
Maria Alyokhina
Yekaterina Samutsevich
Pyotr Verzilov
Vladimir Putin
Andrew Tolokonnikov
Country of origin Russia
Original language(s) Russian
Production
Producer(s) Gogol's Wives Production
Running time 63 minutes
Release
Original release 2013

Pussy versus Putin is a 2013 Russian documentary film by the film collective Gogol's Wives chronicling the history of the group Pussy Riot and their struggle with the political regime in Russia. The film received the NTR IDFA Award for Best Mid-Length Documentary at the 2013 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.[2]

The one-hour film includes sequences in which group members discuss their political aims, footage of their guerrilla-style performances during the run-up to the 2012 Russian presidential election as well as the intimidation and physical harassment they face, shot from behind bars and inside prison vans.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Russian focus - the magazine of the Session
  2. ↑ Frost, Caroline (17 December 2013). "Documentary: 'Pussy Versus Putin' Gives Insider's View Of The Cost Of Taking On The Might Of The Kremlin". Huffington Post. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  3. ↑ MacNab, Geoffrey (20 November 2013). "Scenes Putin doesn't want you to see". The Independent. Retrieved 17 June 2015.

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