Defense of the Kshesinskaya Palace

Director Alexei, the teacher intends to send a statement to the Prosecutor General’s Office for the State Duma deputy Natalia Poklonskaya, who demanded to check his Matilda film preparing for the release, TASS reports . Another statement will be submitted in connection with the threats of Orthodox activists.

“We are preparing a legal answer to Poklonskaya and social activists,” the director said. “In the near future we will send two statements to the Prosecutor General’s Office, one will touch Poklonskaya personally, the second will be people who send letters to cinemas calling for the rental of my film.”

This week, the Office of the Christian State - Holy Russia "sent letters with threats to the cinemas. "If the film" Matilda "is released, cinemas will be burned, maybe people will suffer. We officially notify: any banner, poster, leaflet with information about the rental of the film will be considered as a desire to humiliate the saints of the Orthodox Church and a provocation to the" Russian Maidan, "the letters said.

On Monday, Poklonskaya sent a request to the Prosecutor General’s Office with a request to re -check the legality of the spending of budget funds allocated by the Film Foundation for the creation of the film "Matilda". According to the deputy, the script of the film "Matilda" should be checked by an expert commission from among professional historians and representatives of the church, since "the main characters are persons officially canonized in the film - the holy sovereign Nikolai Second, the sovereign Alexander Feodorovna, the Grand Duchess Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Tsesarevich Alexei."

At the same time, according to Poklonskaya, "the role of St. Nicholas the Second was played by Lara Audinger, a German actor who performed Porkino Role earlier in the film by Peter Greenai" Goltsius and Pelicani Company. "

"Russia is presented in the film as a country of gallows, drunkenness and fornication. It is impossible to allow a film that is a conscious anti -historical fake to discredit, mockery and slander over one of the most revered saints of our church - the king of the denture Nikolai Second and his family members," the deputy request, is released in mass rental.

Poklonskaya sent the first request to Chaika in November 2016 . Poklonskaya explained that on her initiative, conducting art, historical and other research is more difficult to organize, and the process itself will be long. As part of the check within the framework of the Code of Criminal Procedure, everything will go much faster and more efficiently.

Commenting on the information that the film, according to the director, was not yet completed, Poklonskaya replied that the request was prepared, since there are written and oral appeals of the public.

Activists of the Tsarist Cross -Cross, who considered the film "Anti -Russian and Anti -religious Provocation in the Sphere of Culture," addressed the deputy with a denunciation of the deputy.

Earlier, the teacher reported that he intends to arrange the premiere of his film at the Mariinsky Theater. The picture should be released on October 25, when the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution will be celebrated.

A 20 thousand signatures were collected against the teacher’s incomplete picture, they were transferred to the Public Council under the Ministry of Culture.