Kino -Union demanded the resignation of Medinsky

Members of the Russian cinema school demanded to restore the dismissed director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater Boris Mezdrich and to resign the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky. The organization’s statement posted on her website says that the minister is not the first time haunting “disagreements with his anti -cultural policy” and introduces censorship. Madzrich’s dismissal was called the filmmakers "egregious arbitrariness."

The statement, among others, was signed by the directors Andrei Smirnov, Vitaly Mansky, Marina Razbuzhkin, Kinocritic Viktor Matizen, screenwriter and writer Mikhail Lipskov. In total, about 20 people were signed under the statement.

"Consistently acting in defense of the freedom of artistic creativity from obscurantism, the Kinogo Union considers the dismissal of the director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater Boris Mezdrich in connection with the production of the opera Richard Wagner" Tangeiser ". We demand the immediate restoration of Mazhrich as the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, which has been violating the constitution for the first time for the first time for the first time By introducing censorship, ”the document says.

The director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater Boris Mezdrich was fired on Sunday after the scandal around the production of Wagner’s opera Tangaiser. The Ministry of Culture said that Mezdrich was dismissed "for failure to fulfill the instructions of the founder": in particular, the director refused to apologize for the performance, which the representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church did not like. They considered that the production offends the feelings of believers.

Instead of Boris Mezdrich, Vladimir Kekhman was appointed by the Ministry of Culture, heading the Mikhailovsky Theater in St. Petersburg. He is going to combine both positions. At a public meeting of the ministry dedicated to the Tangaiser, Kekhman opposed the production.

Kino -Union is an organization formed in 2010 and is an alternative to the Union of Cinematographers of Russia, headed by Nikita Mikhalkov. The cinema union was formed because of disagreement with the policy of Mikhalkov and the rules of the existing union. The movie union includes Eldar Ryazanov, Daniil Dondure, Alexander Sokurov, Yuri Norshtein and other cinema figures.