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The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov

The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 6, 2017

Runtime

1h 15m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

37%

Original Title

The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov

Production Companies

Message Film, Marx Film, Česká televize

Director

Askold Kurov

Description

August 2015, a courtroom in Rostov-on-Don. A man is peering through the bars of his cage, his eyes reveal that his nerves are about to snap. Today he will be handed down a sentence to which he must submit: 20 years’ imprisonment in Siberia for terrorism. The man is Oleg Sentsov, a film director and Maidan activist born in Simferopol in the Ukraine. He is charged with leading an anti-Russian terrorist movement and having planned attacks on bridges, power lines and a monument of Lenin. Sentsov defends himself, courageously and without flinching. He responds to the verdict with an emphatic denial of his crimes and instead accuses the accusers themselves ...