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Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer

Original title: Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
  • 20132013
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 28m
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Filmed over the course of six months, this film tells the incredible story of three young women: Nadia, Masha and Katia; members of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot who performed a 40 second "punk prayer" inside Russia's main cathedral. This performance led to their arrest on charges of religious hatred and culminated in a trial that has reverberated around the world and transformed the face of Russian society forever.
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Follows the court case of three members of the Russian feminist punk protest group Pussy Riot after their performance in a Russian Orthodox cathedral.Follows the court case of three members of the Russian feminist punk protest group Pussy Riot after their performance in a Russian Orthodox cathedral.Follows the court case of three members of the Russian feminist punk protest group Pussy Riot after their performance in a Russian Orthodox cathedral.

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  • Directors
    • Mike Lerner
    • Maxim Pozdorovkin
  • Stars
    • Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
    • Mariya Alyokhina
    • Yekaterina Samutsevich
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  • Directors
    • Mike Lerner
    • Maxim Pozdorovkin
  • Stars
    • Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
    • Mariya Alyokhina
    • Yekaterina Samutsevich
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    • 15User reviews
    • 53Critic reviews
    • 72Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 5 wins & 3 nominations

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    Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
    Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
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    Mariya Alyokhina
    Mariya Alyokhina
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    Yekaterina Samutsevich
    Yekaterina Samutsevich
    • Selfas Self
    Andrey Tolokonnikov
    • Selfas Self
    Natalia Alyokhina
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    Stanislav Samutsevich
    • Selfas Self
    Pyotr Verzilov
    • Selfas Self
    Mark Feygin
    • Selfas Self
    Nikolai Polozov
    • Selfas Self
    Violetta Volkova
    • Selfas Self
    Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev
    • Selfas Self
    • (as Patriarch Kirill)
    Irina Khrunova
    • Selfas Self
    Lev Lyapin
    • Self - prosecuting lawyeras Self - prosecuting lawyer
    Madonna
    Madonna
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    • (archive footage)
    Dmitry Medvedev
    Dmitry Medvedev
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    • (archive footage)
    Yoko Ono
    Yoko Ono
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    • (archive footage)
    Larisa Pavlova
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    Vladimir Putin
    Vladimir Putin
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      • Mike Lerner
      • Maxim Pozdorovkin
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    Three young women face seven years in a Russian prison for a satirical performance in a Moscow cathedral. But who is really on trial in a case that has gripped the nation and the world beyond, three young artists or the society they live in? —Anonymous
    • reference to vladimir vladimirovich putin
    • obscenity
    • political protest
    • extremism
    • performance
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      • Of punk and power.
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      • Documentary
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      • Not Rated
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      Punk Prayer
      Written and Performed by Pussy Riot

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    West's "Pussy Riot" media coverage worse than "Soviet era" propaganda.
    When the US government sanctioned the beating and arrest of US citizens for swaying from side to side in the Jefferson Memorial a couple of years ago, it provoked no response from the Western media (and therefore the Western zombie-citizens who rely entirely on the media for their 'opinions'). Yet the Russian government, sorry, 'Putin' (because everyone knows Putin is a dictator, right?) is broadly denounced as a 'tyrant' by these same Western zombies (again because their 'outraged opinion' was deftly inserted into their brains by the Western media) for putting a stop to the ugly spectacle of deranged Russian women sticking chickens up their nether regions in supermarkets, daubing outlines of phalli on bridges, staging lewd events in a museum and cavorting around like retards in Russian Orthodox churches as part of their 3 year long international attack on the Russian government.

    Even the name 'Pussy Riot' strongly suggests that this band of nihilists has always viewed the English-speaking world as their main audience. If informing the Russian people about problems in Russian society was their main goal, surely a Russian name would have been top of their list of requirements. But that's not the job with which these self-described 'Trotskyists' were tasked. Their job is to provoke a reaction from the Russian government which can then be used by Western governments and media to launch an 'anti-Putin' propaganda offensive to prepare the ground for a plausibly 'popular uprising' against the Russian government. As we have seen recently in Ukraine, foreign governments can be 'legitimately' overthrown by a relatively small group of Western government-backed protesters without either the input or support of the vast majority of the population of the host nation.

    http://landdestroyer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/who-or-what-is-russias- pussy-riot.html

    The Guardian's article titled, "Pussy Riot trial 'worse than Soviet era'," opens immediately with overt propaganda, describing the courtroom and Russian flag as "shabby" and a police dog as "in search of blood." The British paper attempts to portray Russia itself as having a "stark divide" between conservatives and liberals, the latter fighting against the state "with any means it can."

    Already the Guardian runs into trouble - by portraying Russia as "divided" it is dismissing recent elections that granted Vladimir Putin and his United Russia party a sound mandate to lead the country. And while it is true that in reality, between voter turnout and Putin's garnering the support of 63% of those that did turn out (in a 5-way race), only about 40% of Russia's total registered voters actually voted for Putin, his mandate is still sounder than that of US President Barack Obama's 32% in a mere 2-way race, or last year's victory here in Thailand by Yingluck Shinawatra with a tenuous 35%, a victory hailed by the Western media as a "sweeping" mandate

    Helping to push down on this political lever are propaganda outfits like the Guardian, portraying the trial as a case of liberal Russian opposition groups fighting against a judicial throwback to the Soviet Union. In reality, it is another Wall Street-London production in the same vein as Serbia's US-funded Otpor movement, the Kony 2012 fraud and the US-engineered "Arab Spring."
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    • Release date
      • July 5, 2013 (United Kingdom)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
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    • Language
      • Russian
    • Also known as
      • Pussy Riot
    • Filming locations
      • Dublin, Ireland
    • Production companies
      • Britdoc Foundation
      • Roast Beef Productions
      • Third Party Films
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      • $4,148
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      1 hour 28 minutes

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